Automatically "follow" logs

[NoTuxNoBux]

The recently added "Logs" tab is great! Would it be possible to make it automatically refresh or "follow" the logs? Alternatively, a refresh button could also work. I can use podman-compose logs -f <container> to follow the logs, but Pods doesn't update alongside with new output; even restarting Pods doesn't make the new logs show up, it seems.

A possible problem to take into account is that these logs can be huge. I have a web application that logs database queries during a synchronization operation and a single synchronization commonly logs about 30 MB of logs. Podman probably handles most of the actual logging, but I thought it might be important whilst designing the UX/UI for it to avoid slow scrolling performance or long lines or something.

[marhkb]

Thanks for your feedback. Hmm, I designed it to follow the logs. It's weird that it's not working for you.

pods/src/model/container.rs

Line 644 in 6748af3

.follow(true)

30 MB of logs

Oh yeah, good point. We should probably work with tail, since and until. In this way, we could fetch logs when scrolling up.
https://docs.podman.io/en/latest/_static/api.html?version=v3.4#operation/ContainerLogsLibpod

[NoTuxNoBux]

Thanks for your feedback. Hmm, I designed it to follow the logs. It's weird that it's not working for you.

Hmm, it seems this container is a special snowflake somehow. I have another image just using the Adminer image from Dockerhub that works fine, but this application is a NestJS application based on node:17-alpine. All I see is this:

> [email protected] start:dev
> nest start --watch "the-application"


 Info  Webpack is building your sources...

Normally if you make a change then, it adds more content, which does work with podman-compose logs -f, but it doesn't show up in Pods for some reason.