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Tail Logger for Big .log files - Log Expert

While development you might encountered problem of logging big files

for logging every time we have to either load  .log file in notepad on in any other software.

here is a software which smartly handle all your log files and it follows the tail


Summary of features:

  • Tail mode
  • MDI-Interface with Tabs
  • Search function (including RegEx)
  • Bookmarks
  • A very flexible filter view
  • Highlighting lines via search criteria
  • Columnizers: This means splitting log lines into columns for some well defined logfile formats
  • Unicode support
  • log4j XML file support
  • 3rd party plugin support
  • SFTP support (loading files directly from SFTP)
  • Plugin API for more log file data sources


You can download it from here.

http://logexpert.codeplex.com/

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