log VS tail

Compare log vs tail and see what are their differences.

log

Structured logging package for Go. (by apex)

tail

Go package for reading from continously updated files (tail -f) (by hpcloud)
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log tail
2 -
1,348 2,675
0.3% 1.1%
0.0 0.0
6 months ago over 1 year ago
Go Go
MIT License MIT License
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log

Posts with mentions or reviews of log. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-02-12.

tail

Posts with mentions or reviews of tail. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

We haven't tracked posts mentioning tail yet.
Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing log and tail you can also consider the following projects:

zap - Blazing fast, structured, leveled logging in Go.

journald - Go implementation of systemd Journal's native API for logging

zerolog - Zero Allocation JSON Logger

stdlog - Logging packages for Go

logrus - Structured, pluggable logging for Go.

slog

glog - Leveled execution logs for Go

spew - Implements a deep pretty printer for Go data structures to aid in debugging

seelog - Seelog is a native Go logging library that provides flexible asynchronous dispatching, filtering, and formatting.

logutils - Utilities for slightly better logging in Go (Golang).