A real-time zero-configuration web-based tail. It broadcasts events such as new lines added to any monitored files, new UDP messages, and those emitted by other EventEmitters to your browser.
The lucidtail command listens to specified sources and displays them in a pretty little
web application (see demo).
To quickly be able to view your logs at http://localhost:8080:
lucidtail *.log
After having nodejs installed:
To install lucidtail globally with npm:
npm install lucidtail -g
This allows you to use the lucidtail command. You may need root/Administrator access, if
you don't have it you can alternately get lucidtail from the git repository.
Clone lucidtail:
git clone git://github.com/davidnqd/lucidtail.git
You should now be able to use ./index.js or node index.js within the cloned directory
instead of lucidtail.
lucidtail will use it's default http port (8080) when running.
For more information: lucidtail --help
Monitor all files ending with '.log':
lucidtail *.log
Monitor UDP messages on syslog port 5144:
lucidtail -u 5144
# TIP: If you want to test:
nc -w0 -u localhost 5144 <<< "<34>1 2003-10-11T22:14:15.003Z mymachine.example.com su - ID47 - BOM'su root' failed for lonvick on /dev/pts/8"
On port 8081:
lucidtail *.log -u 514 -p 8081
Install lucidtail as a dependency in your package.json:
cd example
npm init
npm install lucidtail --save
Monitor a test emitter (which sends a test message every second) and publish events on the default port (port 8080):
require('lucidtail')()
.use('test');
Monitors UDP messages on port 5000:
require('lucidtail')()
.use('udp4', 5000);
The following will display inbound syslog messages (UDP port 514) on HTTP port 80:
Notes:
- This example uses lazy which is on npm.
- Port 80 and 514 may require root/Administrator privileges to bind to.
Example:
var lucidtail = require('lucidtail'),
lazy = require('lazy');
// Use a simple regex to parse out the values in the message
// Not even RFC 3164, but this is just an example.
var regex = /(<\d+>)?(\w{3} +\d+ \d{2}:\d{2}:\d{2})?( \w+)?( \w+\[?\d*\]?)?: (.*)/;
var syslog = lazy(lucidtail.emitter('udp4', 514))
.map(function(data) {
var matches = data.data.match(regex);
if (matches) {
if (matches[1])
data.pri = matches[1].replace(/[<>]/g, '');
if (matches[2])
data.date = matches[2];
if (matches[3])
data.host = matches[3].substring(1);
if (matches[4])
data.application = matches[4].substring(1);
if (matches[5])
data.msg = matches[5];
}
return data;
});
// Create aggregate emitter
var emitter = lucidtail(80)
// Listen to a test emitter
.listen(syslog);
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