Web tail

Web application to view lines from file on local system or on remote server built with Svelte

Installation

Download and unpack web-tail-x.x.x-[platform].zip from latest release

In unpacked folder edit web-tail.config.json file

port - Port that Web tail will run on. Defaults value is 4444
openBrowserOnStart - automatically open tab with Web tail in your default browser on start. Default value is false
sources - list of sources to tail lines from
- name - name of source. Mandatory field
- type - type of source. Possible values: local:file, local:docker, ssh:file, ssh:docker. Mandatory field
- path - path to file. Mandatory field for source types *:file
- containerId - Docker container ID. Mandatory field for source types *:docker
- host - host of remote server. Mandatory field for source types ssh:*
- port - port of remote server. Mandatory field for source types ssh:*
- username - username for ssh connection to remote server. Mandatory for source types ssh:*
- password - password to authenticate on remote server. Either this or privateKeyPath is mandatory for source types ssh:*
- privateKeyPath - path to file with private key to authenticate on remote server. Either this or password is mandatory for source types ssh:*

Launch executable for your platform: macOS, Windows or Linux

Or you can download source code and run commands

npm install
npm run build
npm run start

Options from left to right:

Dropdown to select one of sources from web-tail.config.json
Search field. Matching results will be selected. Search is case insensitive by default
Filter toggle. If enabled only lines with matching results are shown
.* toggle. If enabled treats text in search field as regular expression
Aa toggle. If enabled makes search case sensitive
Reverse toggle. If enabled latest lines shown on top
Max lines field. How much lines will be shown