GUI Log viewer for any logs

Jim Wright · 03-28-2022, 02:50 PM

I have a server that used to run under Mac OS X, now running under Rocky Linux on different hardware. I used to use Apple's Console application to view various system logs, mail.log, dovecot.log, multiple Apache logs, etc. It would show me everything in the /var/log folder and I'd just click to view and it would stay updated as the log scrolled by.

So far I haven't found anything comparable on the Linux side, I've found a few that looked nice, but wouldn't let me add some non-standard logs. Ideally something with a tabbed interface for watching multiple logs simultaneously.

I've looked at gnome-logs, glogg, some others, so far nothing quite fits what I'm after. For the moment I'm just keeping several Terminal tabs open and tailing log files. It works, but isn't great.
Recommendations welcome!

ondoho · 03-29-2022, 01:52 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jim Wright

For the moment I'm just keeping several Terminal tabs open and tailing log files. It works, but isn't great.

I see nothing wrong with that...
Anyhow, this is what I found for my distro:

Code:

1) extra/gnome-logs 3.36.0-1 (gnome)
    A log viewer for the systemd journal
2) extra/ksystemlog 21.12.3-1 (kde-applications kde-system)
    System log viewer tool
13) aur/kail 0.15.0-1 (4, 0.00)
    Kubernetes log viewer
14) aur/fblog 4.0.0-1 (4, 0.00)
    command-line JSON Log viewer
15) aur/figtree-bin 1.4.4-1 (4, 0.00)
    Graphical viewer of phylogenetic trees
19) aur/lilith 8.1.1-1 (2, 0.00)
    logging and access event viewer for Logback, log4j and JUL
20) aur/blackbox-explorer-bin 3.5.0-1 (1, 0.02)
    Interactive log viewer for flight logs recorded with blackbox
23) aur/logmaster-git 130.ae03a4d-1 (1, 0.00)
    Log viewer for linux with large file support, kubernetes support and highlighting
24) aur/pimpmylog-git 1.7.9.r0.g22f448c-1 [outofdate: 2018/07/15] (1, 0.00)
    Log viewer for your web server (formerly the PHP Apache Log Viewer)
25) aur/plasma5-applets-journalviewer-git r12.07536d5-1 (1, 0.00)
    simple journald log viewer plasmoid
27) aur/dlt-viewer-git 2.21.2.r23.ga3c77c3-1 (0, 0.00)
    Diagnostic Log and Trace viewing program
28) aur/evtviewer 0.6-1 (0, 0.00)
    Viewer for MS *.evt log files
33) aur/goaccess-git 1.4.r20.gd6fb1252-1 (0, 0.00)
    A real-time web log analyzer and interactive viewer that runs in a terminal in *nix systems or through your browser
36) aur/tailman 0.1.2-1 (0, 0.00)
    Remote tail log viewer

(curated)
Obviously it's going to be slightly different for yours, but some of the software should be available to you.
You can also try the equivalent search on your distro, idk, maybe 'yum search log viewer'?

Jan K. · 03-29-2022, 04:39 AM

Or? https://www.ubuntupit.com/best-linux...agement-tools/