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Could you recommend a GUI application with powerful log watching capabilities?

Generally it would work as tail -f in GUI, but on top of that following features would be very useful:

  • filtering out some lines based on (regular) expressions
  • coloring some lines based on (regular) expressions
  • interactive search
  • saveable configuration easily applicable to different files
  • notifications based on (regular) expressions

A similar tool on Windows is BareTail and its paid version - BareTailPro

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I've discovered glogg, which describes itself as:

glogg is a multi-platform GUI application to browse and search through long or complex log files. It is designed with programmers and system administrators in mind. glogg can be seen as a graphical, interactive combination of grep and less.

It will also tail files if you enable the Follow File option.

Just search Ubuntu's Software Center!

Installation through command line:

sudo apt-get install glogg
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rcourtna
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Multitail is what you searching for:

it has tons of features. look here for some screenshots.

Also have a look at this question over there at serverfault.com

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Some options are: Swatch and KSystemLog

There's a log viewer built into Ubuntu, which can also open any log file, called System Log.

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and there is lnav with colored logs and search from terminal. https://github.com/tstack/lnav enter image description here

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There is also opentail: http://qt-apps.org/content/show.php?content=161456

This is a really nice tailer with a lot of functions

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After desperately searching, then trying out lnav and many other log viewers for the macOS, I finally found the most powerful solution with least things to learn:

Microsoft Excel!

  • Create a blank sheet
  • Import your log file as text data and select delimiter accordingly

...Now you have all the super powers of tabular data manipulation!

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I am using Follow https://sourceforge.net/projects/follow/

simple portable java application, you can follow multiple files and drap & drop them.

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