PiAware/Feed Log Terminal Remote Monitoring

FlightAware ADS-B Flight Tracking
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With PiAware, I currently feed FlightAware, FlightRadar24, and PlaneFinder on my RPi. I wanted an easy way to monitor all the relevant logs on one remote Linux terminal screen, and then I learned about ‘multitail’, which is great for this:

Here is what my command looks like to invoke this display:


multitail -l 'ssh pi@frodo18 "tail -n 5000 -f /var/log/messages"' -l 'ssh pi@frodo18 "tail -n 5000 -f /tmp/piaware.out"' -l 'ssh pi@frodo18 "tail -n 5000 -f /var/log/pfclient.log"' -l 'ssh pi@frodo18 "tail -n 5000 -f /var/log/fr24feed.log"'

Here is a sample of what it looks like:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/ehrd02ai4ffn3sd/pi_logs.png?dl=0

This system assumes that you have configured your ssh connection to the RPi to allow password-less login.*

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Looks good, I haven’t looked at the logs to see if there is anything you need to redact :slight_smile:

One thing you may want to look at is using key authentication to make things a little more secure, I have my root accounts set to use private key authentication when I do rsync over ssh to do remote backups. Running wide open ssh without any kind of authentication seems a little hedgy to me. Here’s a starter page if you’re interested https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/remote-access/ssh/passwordless.md

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Yep, that is the type of ssh authentication that I use on my servers – only authorized accounts are allowed to ssh into these servers :slight_smile: The tutorial you presented looks like an easy and clear explanation on how to do this :slight_smile: