htail

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htail

An utility that displays your common logs, to stdout and in the browser

By firing up one command, htail gives you in your terminal and in your browser:

• Your applications logs
• Your webserver access/error logs
• Your database logs
• Your system logs

Why

I was tired of searching for all my log files when debugging issues that could span multiple applications. I wanted to fire up one command and be able to read all log files that were affected by an action. A few hours of coding later, I came up to that. Other solutions exists, but I wanted it to be platform independent and be easily deployable.

Differences with tail

	htail	tail
Type of features	high level	low level
Distribution for linux/osx	yes	yes
Multiple files support	yes	yes
Read from standard input	yes	yes
Display common log files by default	yes	no
HTTP output	yes	no
maturity	alpha	stable

Usage

htail is configurable via the command line.

• htail: Run htails with the default options
• htail /my/log1 /my/log2: tail the two provided files
• htail -h: Display help

htail also parses the HTAIL_PATH environment variable for directories or log files to parses. The format is the same as the PATH environment variable:

export HTAIL_PATH="/var/log:/usr/local/var/log:/my/path/to/projects/*/logs/dev.log"
htail
# Similar to
htail /var/log /usr/local/var/log '/my/path/to/projects/*/logs/dev.log'

Installation

Debian

echo "deb http://apt.delatech.net/ squeeze main" >> /etc/apt/sources.list
curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/delatech/gpg/master/delatech-public-key-sign.asc | apt-key add -
apt-get update
apt-get install htail

OSX

brew tap delatech/delatech
brew install htail

Anywhere with a valid Go installation

go get github.com/delatech/htail

Credits

Created by Marc Weistroff for DeLaTech