mthenw/frontail
📝 streaming logs to the browser. Sponsored by https://cloudash.dev observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
23/100
- Activity 0
- Release rhythm 8
- Longevity 100
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: n/a
- age_days: 5271
- days_rel: n/a
- days_push: 1025
- n_releases_24m: 0
Adoption not part of the score
1864 stars · 240 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded
frontail is a Node.js application that streams log files to the browser, like `tail -F` with a web UI. It supports log rotation, auto-scrolling, search, highlighting, themes, multiple files, stdin, and basic authentication.
Use cases
- stream server logs to a browser in real time
- tail syslog with a web interface
- watch multiple log files from one page
- share live logs with a team during debugging
- view container logs in a browser via Docker
When to choose
- you want a zero-config, self-hosted web UI for tailing local log files
- you need quick live log visibility on a server without a full log aggregation stack
- you want lightweight log streaming with search, highlighting, and basic auth
When to avoid
- you need centralized log aggregation, retention, or querying across many hosts
- you need structured log analysis or alerting rather than simple tailing
- you need Windows log rotation support, which is not available
Facets
application · maturity maintenance
logging http-server developer-tools streaming monitoring developer-tools cli cross-platform log-viewer tail syslog realtime-logs browser-ui devops command-line nodejs docker web-server
5 sources
- readme: https://github.com/mthenw/frontail · fetched 2026-08-28 · 5c4f46156dfc
- homepage: https://cloudash.dev · fetched 2026-08-29 · bbf049d04377
- site_page: https://cloudash.dev/about · fetched 2026-08-29 · 9fc144fcf8a2
- registry_npm: https://registry.npmjs.org/frontail · fetched 2026-08-29 · 58ef8dd96102
- site_page: https://cloudash.dev/pricing · fetched 2026-08-29 · d86d1999ca57
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| mthenw/frontail | main | 23 |
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