Is it possible to tail both file and journalctl using the same console?

Question

I am looking for a solution for tailing not only multiple files in parallel but also the journalctl.

Multitail seems to do a pretty good job but I don't know a way to make it work with journalctl.

Answer 1

From what I can read, multitail can use stdin as a file. Just use -j where you would like stdin to be read.

Journalctl can output data as tail -f would using the -f option so something like journalctl -f | multitail file1 -j file2 should work.

Answer 2

I have had this problem repeatedly and have put together a script: https://github.com/gjedeer/journaltail/blob/main/journaltail

journaltail -u apache2.service -u nginx /var/log/messages