ApacheTail
The facts below are what the maker publishes about ApacheTail, checked and dated. Our editors have not written about it yet.
Plans and prices
From ApacheTail's own pricing page, checked 12 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Free | Free | Beta; one desktop instance at a time; supports Linux server logs |
The facts
Each one read from ApacheTail's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Compatibility
- The maker says ApacheTail does not support Windows Apache servers and requires a supported Apache log format.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Connection
- ApacheTail connects to the Linux server over SSH using PuTTY and runs the tail command on specified logs.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Credential handling
- The configured password is not saved and is sent only after the SSH connection is established.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Filtering
- Users can include or exclude logs by text filters, and filtered logs are not displayed or added to the database.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Live log tailing
- Yeschecked 20 Sep 2026
- Log analysis
- It reports visitor IP addresses, browsers, operating systems, status codes, page requests, referrers, and combined statistics over time.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Log pipelines
- Yeschecked 20 Sep 2026
- Multiple sites
- Users can monitor multiple Apache log paths on one server, including logs for multiple virtual hosts.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Other logs
- It can tail other Linux logs, including logs followed with journalctl, in a combined real-time view.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Portable and signed
- The maker describes ApacheTail as portable and says its executable is digitally signed with a Symantec certificate.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Purpose
- ApacheTail monitors Linux Apache web server logs in real time from a Windows desktop and displays statistics in a dashboard.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Requirements
- The server account needs read access to the logs, SSH access must be allowed, and the server's SSH port must be reachable.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Storage
- Parsed logs are stored in a local SQLite database.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Structured log parsing
- Yeschecked 20 Sep 2026
- Support
- The maker invites users to send feedback through the ApacheTail page.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Traffic limitation
- The maker says it was mainly tested on a CentOS server under mild load and its behavior on high-traffic servers is uncertain.checked 12 Oct 2026
Money
- Free plan
- Yeschecked 20 Sep 2026
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