Best tools for "ssh tail -f" style log file monitoring and analysis

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Published on 2010-12-29T20:42:19Z Indexed on 2010/12/29 20:56 UTC
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I'm looking for a tool to monitor custom PHP Error logs/Apache and possibly Java logs on remote development servers.

I'm not looking for a full production log system like Splunk, but something that's a little more flexible than an ssh terminal doing a "tail -f".

Perhaps something that will: * Monitor multiple log files to my local machine for searching/analysis later * Allow "alerts" when certain strings appear in the log * Provide some kind of tabbed/dashboard view of the multiple logs being monitored (in total less than 10 logs).

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