# sivasamyk/logtrail

Kibana plugin to view, search & live tail log events

Repository: https://github.com/sivasamyk/logtrail
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/logtrail
Language: JavaScript
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: kibana, elasticsearch, papertrail, logstash, logging, log-viewer, syslog, event-viewer
Last push: 2023-12-30T06:37:46+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 23/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3887, "days_push": 977, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1392, forks 175 (observed 2026-08-28T04:04:36.027814+00:00)

## What it is
LogTrail is a Kibana plugin that provides a Papertrail-inspired interface to view, search, and live tail log events from multiple hosts stored in Elasticsearch. It is now deprecated in favor of Kibana's built-in tail logs feature.

## Use cases
- live tail log events from multiple hosts in kibana
- search centralized logs with lucene query syntax
- filter aggregated logs by host and program
- view syslog events in a devops friendly interface
- seek to logs based on time range
- color code log messages by field values

## When to choose
- you run an older Kibana 5.x/6.x/7.x cluster without the built-in tail logs feature
- you want a simple Papertrail-like log viewer on top of your existing Elasticsearch stack
- you need host/program filtering and live tailing for centralized logs

## When to avoid
- you use a recent Kibana version with the built-in tail logs observability feature
- you need actively maintained software or support for new Kibana releases
- you require features beyond log viewing such as dashboards or alerting

## Facets
- artifact type: plugin
- maturity: abandoned
- function: logging, search-engine, analytics
- domain: monitoring, developer-tools, self-hosted
- platform: self-hosted
- tags: kibana-plugin, elasticsearch, log-viewer, live-tail, syslog, papertrail-inspired, deprecated, devops, web-server

## Member repositories
- sivasamyk/logtrail (main) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:36.027814+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T04:39:33.583579+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/sivasamyk/logtrail (fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:36.027814+00:00, sha 22b5cd0c3273)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.