Frontail
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frontail is a Node.js tool that shows log files in a web browser in real time. Like tail -F, it follows lines appended to the end of a file and pushes them to the browser over socket.io, and provides highlighting, search, filtering, and basic authentication. Because it lets you watch logs without connecting to the server over SSH, it is used as a simple log viewer.
frontail is a Node.js application for streaming logs to the browser. It's a tail -F with UI.