Colorize tail output

Question

I\'ve been trying to make tail a little more readable for server startups. My current command filters out most of the INFO and DEBUG messages from the startup:

Answer 1

I have been using a tool called grc for this for years. works like a charm. It comes with some quite good templates for many standard log outputs and formats and it is easy to define your own. A command I use often is

grc tail -f /var/log/syslog

It colorizes the syslog output so it is easy to spot errors (typically marked red.

Find the tool here:

https://github.com/garabik/grc

(it is also available as package for most common linux flavours).