One of the nice things about lnav is that it indexes the log messages by time and shows a combined view of all the files that are loaded. Other features include: automatic handling of compressed files, querying logs using SQL, a histogram view of messages over time, and more...
Re:Multitail
by zerd on Friday March 14, 2014 @07:44PM
(#7402758)
Thank you for suggesting this. This looks exactly like what I've been looking for. Like a "command-line splunk". It is also packaged as a staticly linked file, which makes deployment easy for us.
http://lnav.org/
One of the nice things about lnav is that it indexes the log messages by time and shows a combined view of all the files that are loaded. Other features include: automatic handling of compressed files, querying logs using SQL, a histogram view of messages over time, and more...