Logstash log tail in browser

Question

So I setup Logstash 1.4.2 with ElasticSearch and Kibana using logstash-forwarder(lumberjack) and thats working pretty well but I also wanted to show just a raw log output(maybe searchable) via a browser similar to something like papertrail?

Is this possible, thanks!

Answer 1

In the discover view, in the top-right corner, there is a play (triangle) button. Press that and your log output should periodically update (default every 10 seconds for me).

Answer 2

Checkout my new Kibana plugin LogTrail, that supports live tail, search and option seek to a particular time in logs in console like GUI.

Answer 3

There are command line utilities that can tail or query logs stored in elasticsearch. While they're not web based, they may achieve what you need.

• EsTail: https://github.com/ElasticSearchCLITools/esTail

To tail the logs using EsTail issue the following command:

node ./esTail.js --url=localhost:9200 --index=logstash*

• Elktail: https://github.com/knes1/elktail

To tail the logs using Elktail issue the following command:

elktail --url localhost:9200

More info on Elktail can be found in blogpost here.

Disclaimer: I'm author of Elktail