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Logtail a node in ServiceNow

Jace's Blog · Sep 26, 2017 · article

Point your browser to /channel.do?sysparm_channel=logtail

What does this load?

Screenshot of logtail.do in ServiceNow

This was posted on (now defunct) servicenowgems.com but I have to cover it too.

I was wondering how this worked. This is a logtail for the logs in ServiceNow in the system on the UI pagechannel.do?sysparm_channel=logtail.

This is called via the UI page channel.do which make a GlideAjax request to ChannelAjax. I tried to find all the parts that make this work, and I was able to create a new channel, but I was unable to direct any logs to it. Below are all the exposed files I could find that made this work. This points to channel_stream.do and threads.do which are both black boxed.

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https://jace.pro/post/2017-09-26-logtail/