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diff --git a/gemfeed/2021-04-22-dtail-the-distributed-log-tail-program.gmi b/gemfeed/2021-04-22-dtail-the-distributed-log-tail-program.gmi index 21e7d316..3341e27e 100644 --- a/gemfeed/2021-04-22-dtail-the-distributed-log-tail-program.gmi +++ b/gemfeed/2021-04-22-dtail-the-distributed-log-tail-program.gmi @@ -2,8 +2,6 @@ > Published at 2021-04-22T19:28:41+01:00; Updated at 2021-04-26 -=> ./dtail-the-distributed-log-tail-program/title.png DTail logo image - This article first appeared at the Mimecast Engineering Blog but I made it available here in my personal internet site too. => https://medium.com/mimecast-engineering/dtail-the-distributed-log-tail-program-79b8087904bb Original Mimecast Engineering Blog post at Medium @@ -16,6 +14,21 @@ Every engineer familiar with UNIX or a UNIX-like platform (e.g., Linux) is well Think of DTail as a distributed version of the tail program which is very useful when you have a distributed application running on many servers. DTail is an Open-Source, cross-platform, fairly easy to use, support and maintain log file analysis & statistics gathering tool designed for Engineers and Systems Administrators. It is programmed in Google Go. +=> ./dtail-the-distributed-log-tail-program/title.png DTail logo image + +## Table of Contents + +* ⇢ DTail - The distributed log tail program +* ⇢ ⇢ A Mimecast Pet Project +* ⇢ ⇢ Differentiating from log management systems +* ⇢ ⇢ Combining simplicity, security and efficiency +* ⇢ ⇢ The DTail family of commands +* ⇢ ⇢ Usage example +* ⇢ ⇢ Fitting it in +* ⇢ ⇢ Advanced features +* ⇢ ⇢ For the future +* ⇢ ⇢ Open Source + ## A Mimecast Pet Project DTail got its inspiration from public domain tools available already in this area but it is a blue sky from-scratch development which was first presented at Mimecast’s annual internal Pet Project competition (awarded with a Bronze prize). It has gained popularity since and is one of the most widely deployed DevOps tools at Mimecast (reaching nearly 10k server installations) and many engineers use it on a regular basis. The Open-Source version of DTail is available at: @@ -107,9 +120,9 @@ E-Mail your comments to `paul@nospam.buetow.org` :-) Other related posts are: -=> ./2021-04-22-dtail-the-distributed-log-tail-program.gmi 2021-04-22 DTail - The distributed log tail program (You are currently reading this) -=> ./2022-03-06-the-release-of-dtail-4.0.0.gmi 2022-03-06 The release of DTail 4.0.0 -=> ./2022-10-30-installing-dtail-on-openbsd.gmi 2022-10-30 Installing DTail on OpenBSD => ./2023-09-25-dtail-usage-examples.gmi 2023-09-25 DTail usage examples +=> ./2022-10-30-installing-dtail-on-openbsd.gmi 2022-10-30 Installing DTail on OpenBSD +=> ./2022-03-06-the-release-of-dtail-4.0.0.gmi 2022-03-06 The release of DTail 4.0.0 +=> ./2021-04-22-dtail-the-distributed-log-tail-program.gmi 2021-04-22 DTail - The distributed log tail program (You are currently reading this) => ../ Back to the main site |