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mthenw
Allow user to choose which file to view
Right now frontail only shows either one single file or all the files (specified on the command line) merged together. I would love to see a drop-down menu in the top bar that would allow me to pick which file to see.
+1 current plan is to run a bunch of these on a single node behind a proxy to make this happen.
Looks like it's often requested feature. SImilar to https://github.com/mthenw/frontail/issues/108. My thinking is that if I specify multiply files to tail e.g.
frontail /var/log/syslog1 /var/log/syslog2
Then in the UI I should be able to switch between those two files. By default it should show tail for all files.
What do you think about that?
Different issue from #108 as I mentioned there. One is about the path at which the tool can run, the other is about how multiple files are displayed within a given instance.
Totally agree. - If multiple files are being viewed, it would be extremely useful to be able to view the entire stream of log, or individual files. (In the UI I would prefer a dropdown og tabs, preferably even showing a number with the amount of lines added to tailed files that are not presently viewed.
Will this ever be done?
It seems that is quite difficult to change that because of way it's implemented tail -f
+1 for this. The only solution I've found so far is to run seperate instances on different ports for each logfile. Other than that, frontail is super amazing :)
+1 for this. An idea for those smarter than I. Create a wrapper application that launches frontail in tabs. So a menu at the top and tabs below for each file. That would be a new git project but installs Frontail as a dependancy.
