Advanced Log Viewer

[Exterminator]

Advanced Log Viewer is free tool for both personal and commercial use. It's designed for easy but powerful viewing of log files in Windows.

Advanced Log Viewer - Overview and Features

Spoiler: List of key features:

• Log content is shown in structured parsed form (Date, Thread, Class, ....)
• Possibility to browse for logs around currently opened log file
• One log message is represented by one item in log viewer (multiline message is parsed as one item - typically exception)
• Advanced Log Viewer can be Portable (e.g. on usb flash or network drive) - no need to install on every computer.
• Adjust log level directly in associated Config file for each log (currently is supported log4net).
• Auto refresh when file is changed / auto scroll (live logs watching)
• Advanced filtering - by date (from, to) or / and by text/regex in specified column(s) or by SQL-like query
• Search for text up or down in specified column(s). Fully supports also regex.
• Color highlighting by text content (fully customizable by the user)
• Icons by message type (Debug, Error, Warn, ...)
• Clickable small side panel with color markers indicating warnings and errors.
• Jump to nearest date time or line number
• Drag and drop file to show it's content
• Synchronized movement between multiple instances of ALV (different logs) by date time
• Jump to nearest date time in different log
• List of another log parts with possibility to show or merge them.
• Bookmarks for simpler orientation
• Integration with any external Text diff tool to compare message content between two lines
• List of recently opened log files with possibility to mark any file as favorite
• Quickly navigate thru all opened instances of ALV by pressing CTRL+TAB
• Open log quickly in external text editor (e.g. notepad)
• And much more...

License: Freeware for personal or commercial use.
Platform: Windows with .NET 4.6.1 (Vista, 7, 2003, 2003 R2, 2008, 2008 R2)

List of changes: 7.6.0 - 11.01.2016
[Feature] Updated to .NET 4.6.1 and improved performance of log loading mainly on x64 OS.
[Fix] Fixed log's code page detection to show characters in UTF8 correctly.
[Fix] Fixed few UI glitches.

Latest version 7.6.0 - 11.01.2016
You can download MSI Installer or Portable ZIP

 

[DracusNarcrym]

This might come in handy.

Into the toolkit you go!

 

[Soulbound]

Added to my collection, specially because it is also PORTABLE! Thanks for sharing.