I donβt know if this is possible or not, but I usually use Baretail , which handle pretty well as a tail.
What I really love with Baretail is a regular expression that you can define to highlight part of your log file. For example, put each line with
- error inside with red background, bold and white text,
- warning with orange background, italics and white text,
- etc.

Otherwise, it seems that you are not the only one who requested such functions (you should transfer the request to userecho).
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