Log Viewing With Ninetails

Introduction

Ninetails is a simple python tool for viewing logs in a very efficient (and colorful) manner. Anyone familiar with intrusion detection, system troubleshooting, or even ops engineers investigating outages, it's important to be able to spot a log anomaly quickly.

I Choose You, Ninetails

Take a look:

Creating your own colors is as simple as creating a python dictionary. The syntax is as follows:

colors = {
    'RED':  ['sudo', 'kernel'],
    'ORANGE': ['login'],
    'GREEN':  ['py', 'php', 'launch'],
    'BABYBLUE':  ['discoveryd']
}

After you download, follow the README. All you'll need to do is sudo pip install -r requirements.txt.

Conclusion

A few thing's I'd like to add include:

• Community managed filters
• Self-updating
• Add more colors

You can check out Ninetails on GitHub here: https://github.com/mikemackintosh/ninetails