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Porthole

Real-time container log viewer with zero agents and zero setup

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31 OCT 2025
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Porthole streams the logs of every container on a host into a fast, searchable web UI. No agents, no pipeline, no index to maintain — point it at the container socket and read.

Worth knowing before you commit:

  • Multi-host support connects several machines into one view.
  • Live tail with regex filtering covers most debugging sessions.
  • It is a viewer, not long-term storage — pair with retention elsewhere.

The difference between "let me SSH in" and already reading the log.

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