Tailor

Tailor is a simple log tailing, summarize tool.

Installation

This product supplied by single binary for MacOS and Linux. Download latest binary from releases.

Basic Usage

Put a binary on your PATH directory.

$ tailor [options] [,file]

Simple file tailing

$ tailor [file]

It works like tail -f command.

Tailing from stdin

$ [some command] | tailor --stdin

It works continous tailing command output.

Transporting

tailor can tarnsport data over the network like fluendtd . It will useful for correct same logs from multiple machine's, e.g. docker containers, Web servers under the load balancing. Transport some data from CLI, and realtime watch these data on Web UI.

Central server

First, execute central-server process at external server that enable to access by browser, (sample is example.com)

$ tailor -C [-d]

If you want to run with daemon, add -d option.

tailor supply the Web Interface at http://example.com:9000 (enable to change listen host/port number with -h/-p option), access http://examole.com:9000 on browser. Central server accepts data on HTTP interface with CORS. In this sample case, endpoint is http://example.com:9000/remote. then, send data from any client support HTTP interface, curl, XMLHttpRequest, etc....

Tailing server(s)

Second, Execute tail data and transporting process at web servers you want to watch:

$ tailor [-d] -R http://example.com:9000 /var/log/httpd/access_log

If you want to run with daemon, add -d option.

-P option's value is a central server's host:port. Then, tailing data will transport to central server, and can watch Web Interface.

Stopping server

If you stop the daemon, execute with --kill option:

$ tailor --kill

Web UI

Central server supply GUI on browser, updating realtime logs by WebSocket. You can see logs that classified by host, one, two, four splitted panes.

Note

• Currently we support transport interface only HTTP , not support HTTPS. So that, central/transporting server recommend to be an appropriate settings, with Firewall.
• Transported data does not save anywhere, watiching only.

Command Options

Contributing

1. Fork it
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create new Pull Request

License

MIT License

Author

Yoshiaki Sugimoto