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Title: MultiTail – Inspect multiple log files at the same time Date: 2016-08-27 19:28:17 Categories: [cli] tags: [multitail] Slug: multitail-inspect-multiple-log-files-at-the-same-time
Authors: sedlav
Whether it’s a server administrator or a programmer some time we need to refer multiple logfiles for effectively troubleshooting tasks. To achieve this we have to open, tail or less a each logfile in a different shell. However, we can use traditional tail command like tail -f /var/log/messages or tail -f /var/log/secure in a single line. But if we want to see multiple files in a real-time we need to install a specific tool called MultiTail.
MultiTail allows you to monitor logfiles and command output in multiple windows in a terminal, colorize, filter and merge.