BareTail
- Freemium • Proprietary
- Windows
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What is BareTail?
BareTail is a real-time log file monitoring tool.
Features
Real-time file viewing
* Optimised real-time viewing engine
* View files of any size (> 2GB)
* Scroll to any point in the whole file instantly
* View files over a network
* Configurable line wrapping
* Configurable TAB expansion
* Configurable font, including spacing and offset to maximise use of screen space
Follow tail mode
* View the end of a growing file in real time, no matter how fast the file grows
* Like "tail -f" on Unix systems, but with many more features
Tail multiple files
* Simultaneously monitor multiple files for changes using tabs
* Visual indication on each tab of file status and changes
* Tabs may be positioned on any side of the window and oriented horizontally or vertically
Configurable highlighting
* Lines containing particular strings can be highlighted to help you notice important text
* Highlight colours are fully customisable
International character sets
* Unicode
* UTF-8
* ANSI
* ASCII
Many file formats
* Windows / DOS text files (lines end in CR/LF pairs)
* Unix text files (lines end in LF)
* Microsoft IIS logfiles (and other files terminated with a string of nulls)
Flexible configuration options and storage
* Many configurable user preferences
* Preferences can be saved to a file, the registry or not at all on exit
* Preferences are loaded from a file in the local directory, a file in the application directory or the registry (in that order)
* Preferences can be loaded and saved at any time by the user, and shared with other users
Single small executable, no installer
* No installation needed, start using the tool immediately
* Small executable can be run from the network
* Easy to temporarily install and then completely remove
Features
Real-time file viewing
* Optimised real-time viewing engine
* View files of any size (> 2GB)
* Scroll to any point in the whole file instantly
* View files over a network
* Configurable line wrapping
* Configurable TAB expansion
* Configurable font, including spacing and offset to maximise use of screen space
Follow tail mode
* View the end of a growing file in real time, no matter how fast the file grows
* Like "tail -f" on Unix systems, but with many more features
Tail multiple files
* Simultaneously monitor multiple files for changes using tabs
* Visual indication on each tab of file status and changes
* Tabs may be positioned on any side of the window and oriented horizontally or vertically
Configurable highlighting
* Lines containing particular strings can be highlighted to help you notice important text
* Highlight colours are fully customisable
International character sets
* Unicode
* UTF-8
* ANSI
* ASCII
Many file formats
* Windows / DOS text files (lines end in CR/LF pairs)
* Unix text files (lines end in LF)
* Microsoft IIS logfiles (and other files terminated with a string of nulls)
Flexible configuration options and storage
* Many configurable user preferences
* Preferences can be saved to a file, the registry or not at all on exit
* Preferences are loaded from a file in the local directory, a file in the application directory or the registry (in that order)
* Preferences can be loaded and saved at any time by the user, and shared with other users
Single small executable, no installer
* No installation needed, start using the tool immediately
* Small executable can be run from the network
* Easy to temporarily install and then completely remove
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Discontinued
The latest version of the application is from November 2006.
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Tags
- log-monitoring
- file-monitoring
- filesystem-monitoring
- tail
- logfile
- system-utilities
BareTail
Summary
Our users have written 3 comments and reviews about BareTail, and it has gotten 36 likes
- Developed by Bare Metal Software
- Proprietary and Freemium product.
- 38 alternatives listed
Popular alternatives
View allBareTail was added to AlternativeTo by Kolban on Dec 4, 2009 and this page was last updated Mar 11, 2019.
Recent user activities on BareTail
- Ugotsta added BareTail as alternative(s) to Angle-grinder5 months ago
- NosaLee added BareTail as alternative(s) to tail for Windows5 months ago
- mommos Upvoted a comment on loxx as an alternative to BareTailLow memory usage, MDI view, very fast loading and searching, time stamp supportover 1 year ago
It's 2017 and I've still not found a more stable alternative than Baretail, which was last updated in 2006. It's spartan on features but it works.
Hi ryansmith1! I wrote an alternative by my self (I missed some features in baretail). So it would be interesting for what you think about it. You wanna have a try?
Reply written over 2 years ago
You can checkout in'side log .
A Java tool I created, able to read local and distant log files using SSH. It is fairly simple to use.
Some more explanations: https://github.com/pschweitz/insidelog/wiki
Just download the version corresponding to your operating system, or the native jar release executable within your Java Runtime (requires java 8_40 or higher):
https://github.com/pschweitz/insidelog/releases
You can find a complete documentation (embedded with and in Github's page as well)
[Edited by pschweitz, January 22]
This tool is from 2006 and I still haven't found a better one.