frontail
is a Node.js application for streaming logs to the browser. It's a tail -F
with UI.
npm i frontail -g
or download a binary file from Releases pagefrontail /var/log/syslog
- visit http://127.0.0.1:9001
- log rotation
- auto-scrolling
- marking logs
- number of unread logs in favicon
- themes (default, dark)
- highlighting
- search (
Tab
to focus,Esc
to clear) - tailing multiple files and stdin
- basic authentication
- download a binary file from Releases page
- using npm package:
npm i frontail -g
- using Docker image:
docker run -d -P -v /var/log:/log mthenw/frontail /log/syslog
frontail [options] [file ...]
Options:
-h, --help output usage information
-V, --version output the version number
-h, --host <host> listening host, default 0.0.0.0
-p, --port <port> listening port, default 9001
-n, --number <number> starting lines number, default 10
-l, --lines <lines> number on lines stored in browser, default 2000
-t, --theme <theme> name of the theme (default, dark)
-d, --daemonize run as daemon
-U, --user <username> Basic Authentication username, option works only along with -P option
-P, --password <password> Basic Authentication password, option works only along with -U option
-k, --key <key.pem> Private Key for HTTPS, option works only along with -c option
-c, --certificate <cert.pem> Certificate for HTTPS, option works only along with -k option
--pid-path <path> if run as daemon file that will store the process id, default /var/run/frontail.pid
--log-path <path> if run as daemon file that will be used as a log, default /dev/null
--url-path <path> URL path for the browser application, default /
--ui-hide-topbar hide topbar (log file name and search box)
--ui-no-indent don't indent log lines
--ui-highlight highlight words or lines if defined string found in logs, default preset
--ui-highlight-preset <path> custom preset for highlighting (see ./preset/default.json)
--path <path> prefix path for the running application, default /
Web interface runs on http://127.0.0.1:[port].
[file ...]
accepts multiple paths, *
, ?
and other shell special characters(Wildcards, Quotes, Back Quotes and Apostrophes in shell commands).
Use -
for streaming stdin:
./server | frontail -
--ui-highlight
option turns on highlighting in UI. By default preset from ./preset/default.json
is used:
{
"words": {
"err": "color: red;"
},
"lines": {
"err": "font-weight: bold;"
}
}
which means that every "err" string will be in red and every line containing "err" will be bolded.
New presets are very welcome. If you don't like default or you would like to share yours, please create PR with json file.
Using the --url-path
option frontail
can run behind nginx with the example configuration
Using frontail
with --url-path /frontail
events {
worker_connections 1024;
}
http {
server {
listen 8080;
server_name localhost;
location /frontail {
proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:9001/frontail;
proxy_http_version 1.1;
proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade;
proxy_set_header Connection "upgrade";
}
}
}