Web tail

Web application to view lines from file on local system or on remote server built with Svelte

Installation

Download and unpack web-tail-[platform].zip from latest release

Docker image is also available here

Configuration

In unpacked folder edit web-tail.config.toml file

• port - port that Web tail will run on. Defaults value is 4444
• allowedOrigins - list of allowed origins for WebSocket connections. Defaults value is ["*"] which allows all origins
• servers - reusable servers configuration
  • name - name of server to use in sources configs
  • host - host of remote server. Mandatory field for source types ssh:*
  • port - port of remote server. Mandatory field for source types ssh:*
  • username - username for ssh connection to remote server. Mandatory for source types ssh:*
  • password - password to authenticate on remote server. Either this or privateKeyPath is mandatory for source types ssh:*
  • privateKeyPath - path to file with private key to authenticate on remote server. Either this or password is mandatory for source types ssh:*
• sources - list of sources to tail lines from
  • name - name of source. Mandatory field
  • type - type of source. Possible values: local:file, local:docker, ssh:file, ssh:docker. Mandatory field
  • path - path to file. Mandatory field for source types *:file
  • serverName - name of a server from servers list
  • containerId - Docker container ID. Mandatory field for source types *:docker
  • host - host of remote server. Mandatory field for source types ssh:*
  • port - port of remote server. Mandatory field for source types ssh:*
  • username - username for ssh connection to remote server. Mandatory for source types ssh:*
  • password - password to authenticate on remote server. Either this or privateKeyPath is mandatory for source types ssh:*
  • privateKeyPath - path to file with private key to authenticate on remote server. Either this or password is mandatory for source types ssh:*

Usage

Options from left to right:

• Dropdown to select one of sources from web-tail.config.toml
• Search field. Matching results will be selected. Search is case insensitive by default
• Filter toggle. If enabled only lines with matching results are shown
• .* toggle. If enabled treats text in search field as regular expression
• Aa toggle. If enabled makes search case sensitive
• Reverse toggle. If enabled latest lines shown on top
• Max lines field. How much lines will be shown

Development

Set environment variable ASSETS=dist/public before doing go run ./server to use preemtively compiled assets