Wednesday 20 March 2013

Using Multitail to view multiple logs, all at the very same time

As I'm going through the motions of installing and running IBM BPM Advanced 8.0.1.1 on Linux, I wanted a way to keep multiple log files open all at the very same time.

I harked back to an episode of This Week In Lotus, on which I appeared back in 2010, when I recommended the use of Multitail for that precise purpose.

I re-visited the Multitail site here - http://www.vanheusden.com/multitail/index.php - and, from there, found a link to a set of RPMs that someone has kindly pulled together here. This was the version that I downloaded: -


which I then installed ( as root ): -

$ rpm -ivh multitail-5.2.9-1.el3.rf.x86_64.rpm 

and fired it up against my four individual log files: -

multitail -i /opt/IBM/WebSphere/AppServer/profiles/PCN1Profile/logs/PCSR011.AppTarget/SystemOut.log -i /opt/IBM/WebSphere/AppServer/profiles/PCN1Profile/logs/PCSR011.Messaging/SystemOut.log -i /opt/IBM/WebSphere/AppServer/profiles/PCN1Profile/logs/PCSR011.Support/SystemOut.log -i /opt/IBM/WebSphere/AppServer/profiles/PCN1Profile/logs/PCSR011.WebApp/SystemOut.log 

with the following result: -


One of my colleagues pointed out that I could further reduce the command using a wildcard: -

multitail -i /opt/IBM/WebSphere/AppServer/profiles/BAMN1Profile/logs/BAMSR011.*/SystemOut.log

2 comments:

Radu Cadariu said...

you just made my day ... thanks

Dave Hay said...

@Radu - no worries, it's a very useful little tool. Enjoy :-)

Visual Studio Code - Wow 🙀

Why did I not know that I can merely hit [cmd] [p]  to bring up a search box allowing me to search my project e.g. a repo cloned from GitHub...