diff --git a/hbase-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/wal/WALPrettyPrinter.java b/hbase-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/wal/WALPrettyPrinter.java
index a9d089877a30..a37efec610eb 100644
--- a/hbase-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/wal/WALPrettyPrinter.java
+++ b/hbase-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/wal/WALPrettyPrinter.java
@@ -21,11 +21,14 @@
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.PrintStream;
 import java.util.ArrayList;
+import java.util.Collections;
 import java.util.Date;
 import java.util.HashMap;
+import java.util.HashSet;
 import java.util.Iterator;
 import java.util.List;
 import java.util.Map;
+import java.util.Set;
 import org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configuration;
 import org.apache.hadoop.fs.FileSystem;
 import org.apache.hadoop.fs.Path;
@@ -34,7 +37,6 @@
 import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.HBaseConfiguration;
 import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.HBaseInterfaceAudience;
 import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.PrivateCellUtil;
-import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.TableName;
 import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.Tag;
 import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.regionserver.wal.ProtobufLogReader;
 import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.util.Bytes;
@@ -79,9 +81,12 @@ public class WALPrettyPrinter {
   private boolean outputJSON;
   // The following enable filtering by sequence, region, and row, respectively
   private long sequence;
-  private String table;
+
+  // List of tables for filter
+  private final Set<String> tableSet;
   private String region;
   private String row;
+  private boolean outputOnlyRowKey;
   // enable in order to output a single list of transactions from several files
   private boolean persistentOutput;
   private boolean firstTxn;
@@ -99,9 +104,10 @@ public WALPrettyPrinter() {
     outputValues = false;
     outputJSON = false;
     sequence = -1;
-    table = null;
+    tableSet = new HashSet<>();
     region = null;
     row = null;
+    outputOnlyRowKey = false;
     persistentOutput = false;
     firstTxn = true;
     out = System.out;
@@ -147,11 +153,11 @@ public void setSequenceFilter(long sequence) {
   }
 
   /**
-   * Sets the table filter. Only log entries for this table are printed.
-   * @param table table name to set.
+   * Sets the tables filter. Only log entries for these tables are printed.
+   * @param tablesWithDelimiter table names separated with comma.
    */
-  public void setTableFilter(String table) {
-    this.table = table;
+  public void setTableFilter(String tablesWithDelimiter) {
+    Collections.addAll(tableSet, tablesWithDelimiter.split(","));
   }
   /**
    * sets the region by which output will be filtered
@@ -165,7 +171,7 @@ public void setRegionFilter(String region) {
   }
 
   /**
-   * sets the region by which output will be filtered
+   * sets the row key by which output will be filtered
    *
    * @param row
    *          when not null, serves as a filter; only log entries from this row
@@ -175,6 +181,13 @@ public void setRowFilter(String row) {
     this.row = row;
   }
 
+  /**
+   * Option to print the row key only in case you just need the row keys from the WAL
+   */
+  public void setOutputOnlyRowKey() {
+    this.outputOnlyRowKey = true;
+  }
+
   /**
    * sets the position to start seeking the WAL file
    * @param position
@@ -274,7 +287,8 @@ public void processFile(final Configuration conf, final Path p)
         Map<String, Object> txn = key.toStringMap();
         long writeTime = key.getWriteTime();
         // check output filters
-        if (table != null && !((TableName) txn.get("table")).toString().equals(table)) {
+        if (!tableSet.isEmpty() &&
+          !tableSet.contains(txn.get("table").toString())) {
           continue;
         }
         if (sequence >= 0 && ((Long) txn.get("sequence")) != sequence) {
@@ -287,7 +301,7 @@ public void processFile(final Configuration conf, final Path p)
         List<Map<String, Object>> actions = new ArrayList<>();
         for (Cell cell : edit.getCells()) {
           // add atomic operation to txn
-          Map<String, Object> op = new HashMap<>(toStringMap(cell));
+          Map<String, Object> op = new HashMap<>(toStringMap(cell, outputOnlyRowKey));
           if (outputValues) {
             op.put("value", Bytes.toStringBinary(CellUtil.cloneValue(cell)));
           }
@@ -342,16 +356,20 @@ public static void printCell(PrintStream out, Map<String, Object> op, boolean ou
     out.println("cell total size sum: " + op.get("total_size_sum"));
   }
 
-  public static Map<String, Object> toStringMap(Cell cell) {
+  public static Map<String, Object> toStringMap(Cell cell, boolean printRowKeyOnly) {
     Map<String, Object> stringMap = new HashMap<>();
     stringMap.put("row",
-        Bytes.toStringBinary(cell.getRowArray(), cell.getRowOffset(), cell.getRowLength()));
+      Bytes.toStringBinary(cell.getRowArray(), cell.getRowOffset(), cell.getRowLength()));
+
+    if (printRowKeyOnly) {
+      return stringMap;
+    }
     stringMap.put("type", cell.getType());
     stringMap.put("family", Bytes.toStringBinary(cell.getFamilyArray(), cell.getFamilyOffset(),
-                cell.getFamilyLength()));
+      cell.getFamilyLength()));
     stringMap.put("qualifier",
-        Bytes.toStringBinary(cell.getQualifierArray(), cell.getQualifierOffset(),
-            cell.getQualifierLength()));
+      Bytes.toStringBinary(cell.getQualifierArray(), cell.getQualifierOffset(),
+        cell.getQualifierLength()));
     stringMap.put("timestamp", cell.getTimestamp());
     stringMap.put("vlen", cell.getValueLength());
     if (cell.getTagsLength() > 0) {
@@ -360,13 +378,17 @@ public static Map<String, Object> toStringMap(Cell cell) {
       while (tagsIterator.hasNext()) {
         Tag tag = tagsIterator.next();
         tagsString
-            .add((tag.getType()) + ":" + Bytes.toStringBinary(Tag.cloneValue(tag)));
+          .add((tag.getType()) + ":" + Bytes.toStringBinary(Tag.cloneValue(tag)));
       }
       stringMap.put("tag", tagsString);
     }
     return stringMap;
   }
 
+  public static Map<String, Object> toStringMap(Cell cell) {
+    return toStringMap(cell, false);
+  }
+
   public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
     run(args);
   }
@@ -386,11 +408,14 @@ public static void run(String[] args) throws IOException {
     options.addOption("h", "help", false, "Output help message");
     options.addOption("j", "json", false, "Output JSON");
     options.addOption("p", "printvals", false, "Print values");
-    options.addOption("t", "table", true, "Table name to filter by.");
+    options.addOption("t", "tables", true,
+      "Table names (comma separated) to filter by; eg: test1,test2,test3 ");
     options.addOption("r", "region", true,
         "Region to filter by. Pass encoded region name; e.g. '9192caead6a5a20acb4454ffbc79fa14'");
     options.addOption("s", "sequence", true,
         "Sequence to filter by. Pass sequence number.");
+    options.addOption("k", "outputOnlyRowKey", false,
+      "Print only row keys");
     options.addOption("w", "row", true, "Row to filter by. Pass row name.");
     options.addOption("g", "goto", true, "Position to seek to in the file");
 
@@ -412,6 +437,9 @@ public static void run(String[] args) throws IOException {
       if (cmd.hasOption("j")) {
         printer.enableJSON();
       }
+      if (cmd.hasOption("k")) {
+        printer.setOutputOnlyRowKey();
+      }
       if (cmd.hasOption("t")) {
         printer.setTableFilter(cmd.getOptionValue("t"));
       }