alerta

Introduction

This project aims to provide a different approach to traditional log tailers. Amongst other features:

Multitailing capability. It can tail multiple logs at a time
Colors for every level: warn, info, debug, error and fatal
Emphasize multiple targets (log traces) given regular expressions
Follow log upon truncation by default
User defined colors for each level
Silent (daemonized) mode
Throttling mode. Slow down the information being printed in the terminal
Inactivity log monitoring
mail notification
Pause Modes freezes output for a limited period of time depending on level found.
Analytics. Makes a report of each level found in logs when finished.
Different color schemes for each log
Tailing logs over SSH

Why yet another tailer?

Most people use tail -F to tail the logs these days. When debugging enterprise class applications you cannot just follow (in many situations) what is going on unless you go to the log, less it and check if something was wrong, or just Ctrl-C tail program and scroll back. Human eye cannot distinguish or grab a line out of thousands when that information is showed incredibly fast in the screen. By providing colors, the human eye will discern and quickly identify specific levels or lines.

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