Realtime tails

A tail is a live stream of events rendered into the bottom panel, newest at the bottom. You can run several at once — each gets its own tab.

Tail types

Starting a tail

Focus the bottom panel with Ctrl+↓, cycle to the Pub/Subor Tail anchor with Tab, then type a source spec and pressEnter. The spec's prefix selects the source type:

# focus the bottom panel (Ctrl-↓), pick the Pub/Sub or Tail anchor,
# type a source spec, then press Enter:
pubsub:news                  # Redis SUBSCRIBE
psub:orders.*                # Redis PSUBSCRIBE (pattern)
stream:telemetry             # Redis stream, new entries
keyspace                     # Redis keyspace events
topic:events                 # AMQP 1.0 topic
exchange:amq.topic/order.*   # RabbitMQ exchange tap

Pattern tails

A pattern tail (psub:orders.*) subscribes to a glob and labels each event with the concrete channel it arrived on, padded to a fixed 18-column field so payloads stay aligned.

# Pub/Sub anchor: psub:orders.*
14:02:09.118  orders.created     {"id":48213,"total":24.90}
14:02:09.640  orders.paid        {"id":48213,"ok":true}

Pause & scrollback

The feed always follows the newest event. Press p to pause and resume the view — the tail keeps running (and recording) underneath. Scrollback is a ring buffer capped attail_scrollback (default 2000); older events scroll off the top.