tail VS lumberjack

Compare tail vs lumberjack and see what are their differences.

tail

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

lumberjack

lumberjack is a log rolling package for Go (by natefinch)
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tail lumberjack
- 4
2,646 4,609
0.0% -
0.0 0.0
over 1 year ago about 1 month 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.

lumberjack

Posts with mentions or reviews of lumberjack. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-06-14.

What are some alternatives?

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

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

logrus - Structured, pluggable logging for Go.

stdlog - Logging packages for Go

zerolog - Zero Allocation JSON Logger

slog

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

glog - Leveled execution logs for Go

log - Structured logging package for Go.

logger - Minimalistic logging library for Go.

rollingwriter - Rolling writer is an IO util for auto rolling write in go.