I'm a developer, and I generate big log files. I've tried several log viewer applications (free or not), so far mtail I like the most. But, it lacks features.
I would like from my log viewer to:
The question is:
Which log viewer would you recommend on Windows?
My new favorite log viewer is glogg. It makes finding stuff in noisy log files very easy. It could use a few more features but does 95% of everything I need it to do, it is open source, written in C++ using Qt and runs on Linux/Windows/Mac. Give it a try.
From the glogg description page:
glogg enables you to use regular expressions to search for interesting events in your log files. It presents a results window which, together with complex regular expressions allows easy isolation of the meaningful lines amongst the noise.
glogg has been primarily developed to help spot and understand problems in huge logs generated by embedded systems. It can be equally useful to a sysadmin digging through logs from databases or web servers.
The main design goals for glogg are:
- it should be fast
- it does not have any limit on the size of files it can handle
- it provides a clear view of the matches even in heavily cluttered files.
If you think it does not do that, it is a bug and it should be fixed!
Log Expert http://logexpert.codeplex.com/
Features:
Take a look a logview4net it's free and has a different take on viewing log files.
A free (open source) log monitor / log viewer for:
* Files and folders
* Incomming UDP traffic
* EventLogs
* SQL- Server tables
* Atom and RSS feeds
* StdOut and StdErr
Installing MSYS gives you a close version to a Unix environment on Windows, you get all the main binaries. Using these tools you can achieve all the functionality you request using standard commands like tail, grep, less, etc.
I wrote my own little logviewer just because of that, its really raw at the moment, but would be an ok starting point if anyone wanted to extend it.
