frontail is a Node.js application for streaming logs to the browser. It’s a tail -F with UI.
frontail by default (from v4.5.0) gathers anonymous usage statistics in Google Analytics.
The software is released under an open source license.
Key Features
- Log rotation.
- Auto-scrolling.
- Marking logs.
- Number of unread logs in favicon.
- Themes (default, dark).
- Highlighting. There are presets: default, npmlog, and Python.
- Search (Tab to focus, Esc to clear).
- Set filter from url parameter filter.
- Tailing multiple files and stdin.
- Basic authentication.
- Supports responsive design.
- Supports charset encoding.
- Cross-platform support – runs under Linux, OpenBSD, macOS.
Website: github.com/mthenw/frontail
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Developer: Maciej Winnicki
License: MIT License
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