Monitoring Log Files

I wanted to monitor the log files of 8 server nodes in a cluster installation. I used notepad at the beginning and it was a painful experience. I tried nodepad++ and the tail command for windows but it was not that better. I did a quick research and found an amazing free and easy to use tool called BareTail. I shared the folder in which the log file resides for each server and opened 8 tabs using BareTail. The end result was extremely powerful yet easy. Log files in each tab automatically refreshed when the log file gets new data, whenever a log file has new data the tab is marked with a green arrow, when the tab is clicked the green arrow goes away, you can always choose to follow the tail of each log to jump to the end of the file and finally I defined some color rules to highlight certain patterns for example errors in red, warnings in orange and success in green. You can get BareTail from http://www.baremetalsoft.com/baretail it is free, it is only one executable, no need to install anything. They have a pro version but the free one is more than enough for simple needs. Here is a screenshot

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