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Tailviewer

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Tailviewer is a free and active open-source log file viewer.

Tailviewer is supported on Windows 7, 8 and 10 and requires .NET 4.7.1 or higher.

Head on over to https://kittyfisto.github.io/Tailviewer/ in order to download the newest version.

Tailviewer application

Tailviewer supports live filtering on medium to large (< 1Gb) log files.

Live filtering

Features

  • Multiline log entries
  • Searching
  • Filtering (substring, wildcard & regexp)
  • Filter by timestamp range
  • Filtering by log level (fatal, error, warning, info and debug)
  • Highlighting by log level
  • Merging multiple files (by timestamp)
  • Bookmarks
  • Additional columns:
    • Elapsed time between log entries
    • Elapsed time since first log entry
  • Plugin system to support custom/proprietary formats (submitting an issue/mr is also an option, if I have the time)

Installation

Simply download the latest stable version from https://kittyfisto.github.io/Tailviewer/.
You could also try out the latest "nightly" build from here: https://ci.appveyor.com/project/Kittyfisto/sharptail

Developing plugins

Tailviewer can be extended by installing plugins for file formats which aren't natively supported.

You can find a more detailed of how to write plugins here.

Contributing

See here

History

TODO: Write history

Credits

TODO

License

MIT