How to highlight Exception and failure in server.log file
 

Hi guys, I wanna highlighted display of some keywords like EXCEPTIONS and Failures in log file as it keep running.
thanxx

Hello and welcome to LinuxQuestions,

You could install colortail (most likely exists in your repositories) or multitail.

Looking forward to your participation in the forums. Have fun with Linux.

Kind regards,

Eric

I can't install anything as i m not superuser. what I am asking is, when I am monitoring server.log, there are thousands of request processing every seconds so I just want to monitor only failures n exceptions occurred.
when I do " cat server.log " or
" tail -f server.log "
it continually display all requests
but i want it to display only lines that containing Exception or errors
i don't want use grep or seek like commands because it doesn't display continuously...grep doesn't update automatically.

This will do it
The tail cmd continuously feeds grep which only displays matched recs.
Note that its all case sensitive, so failure != Failure.

grep's -i (or --ignore-case) option would solve that. Might be useful to add error to failure and exception.

Thanks man...this is what i was looking exactly.
keep it up.