Tailed

Simple and quick monitoring of short-term processes over the web.

Running a script that will take several hours to complete? Want to monitor it from your phone so you're not anchored to your laptop? Or do you want to share the output from a log file or console with your team?

Tailed is a low-ceremony way of achieving all this for free!

Tailed is built to cater to a specific niche. It's not a replacement for fuller-featured log management software. No logs are retained or indexed and there's no search or alerts. Please don't use the Tailed server for long-term, verbose monitoring.

You can send data to Tailed in one of three ways:

1. By using the Zero-Install online tailer.

2. By monitoring log files using the Tailed command line tool.

3. By using the in-process Tailed libraries for .NET or Node. These will send a copy of any content destined for the console, stdout or stderr to the Tailed web site.

Tailed is run as a project by Chris Wood at his own personal expense. Please use Tailed respectfully. If you'd like to run your own server, the source code is available in the Tailed repo on GitHub.