remtail

tail out log files from multiple remote hosts

install!

npm install -g remtail

basic usage

Connect to as many hosts as you want.

remtail trillworks.com:/var/log/nginx/access.log okpedro.com:/var/log/apache2/other_vhosts_access.log

Specify multiple files on the same host by repeating the hostname.

remtail trillworks.com:/var/log/nginx/access.log trillworks.com:/var/log/nginx/error.log

grep-like functionality with highlighting.

Only print lines containing "Comment", with "Comment" shown in red.

  remtail --grep "Comment" trillworks.com:/var/log/apache2/other_vhosts_access.log

For case insensitive search, use --grepi.

remtail --grepi "Comment" trillworks.com:/var/log/apache2/other_vhosts_access.log

You have full support for JavaScript regular expressions, so you can search for multiple strings like this:

remtail --grepi "GET|POST" trillworks.com:/var/log/apache2/other_vhosts_access.log

advanced usage

To avoid typing in passwords for every host, copy your public key to the remote servers. Then add entries in your ssh config. (~/.ssh/config). Here is the format:

Host trillworks
    HostName trillworks.com
    User burt
    IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa

Specify an alternate ssh config with -s.

If you want to live dangerously, you can throw your passwords in a json credentials file (~/.remtail.json).

WARNING: This is deprecated and will be removed in version 1.0.

[
  {
    "hostname": "trillworks.com",
    "port": 22,
    "user": "buzz",
    "password": "hunter2"
  },
  {
    "hostname": "globcong.com",
    "user": "woody",
    "privateKey": "/Users/woody/.ssh/id_rsa"
  }
]

Specify an alternate credentials file path with -c.

development

unit tests

node test/test.js

linter

npm run-script jshint

license

MIT