tail VS journald

Compare tail vs journald and see what are their differences.

tail

Go package for reading from continously updated files (tail -f) (by hpcloud)

journald

Go implementation of systemd Journal's native API for logging (by ssgreg)
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tail journald
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2,646 38
0.0% -
0.0 0.0
over 1 year ago about 3 years ago
Go Go
MIT License MIT License
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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.

journald

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

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

What are some alternatives?

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

slog

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

stdlog - Logging packages for Go

go-systemd - Go bindings to systemd socket activation, journal, D-Bus, and unit files

glog - Leveled execution logs for Go

logrus - Structured, pluggable logging for Go.

log - Structured logging package for Go.

zerolog - Zero Allocation JSON Logger

logex - An golang log lib, supports tracking and level, wrap by standard log lib

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

glo - Logging library for Golang