Retrospective is a lean solution for IT people to manage enterprise log data on either Windows, Mac or Linux.
Cost / License
- Pay once
- Proprietary
Application types
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux




Hoo WinTail is described as 'Real-time log monitor and log viewer for Windows like the UNIX tail -f utility. It monitors your log and captures output in real-time' and is an app. There are more than 25 alternatives to Hoo WinTail for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, Self-Hosted and Flathub apps. The best Hoo WinTail alternative is LogExpert, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Hoo WinTail are SPHW LogViewer, glogg, BareTail and LogViewPlus.
Retrospective is a lean solution for IT people to manage enterprise log data on either Windows, Mac or Linux.




WinTail allows you to view the last 64K of a growing text file in real time under Win32 operating systems. It's a bit like using the "tail -f" command under UNIX. This is particularly useful for:
GamutLogViewer can be used for viewing and filtering log files of all types including Log4J, Log4Net, NLog, CSV files, files delimited with other separators, or plain unformatted log files.



The LogViewer Pro is a viewer for text log files.
Features include: Fast scrolling, eats low memory Supports any file size (4 Gb and larger) Multitabbed interface Auto-reload file, "Follow tail" mode Allows to highlight some lines (e.g. "errors", ".

LOG4VIEW helps you find areas of code and bugs and identify performance issues. Powerful filters enable you to quickly filter out the log lines you are currently interested in from several millions of log lines.


Another free real-time log file monitoring tool. Made in Java. It's almost the same Baretail free edition but with the cappability of searching through the log file. And without a bothersome screen asking you for buying the product.
Yata is a general purpose log viewer and file monitor with a nice pretty GUI. "Yata" is an acronym for "Yet Another Tail Application", so named because of its focus on viewing logs in real time (similar to what one might use "tail -f" on the unix...
fLogViewer.net is a free Windows program which allows one to view large log text files with color coding and filtering.

LogAnayzer is a text editor specifically designed to analyze log files faster and easier by allowing the user to create, store and apply rules. When a log line contains all the patterns of a rule a match is added to the index.

Intuitive and powerful real-time log viewer. Low CPU/RAM/network usage. Handles large files (gigabytes), instant loading, colour highlighting, tailing and powerful text/RegEx searching.



Log Manager lets you view the contents of multiple log files as they're updated in real time.
This project aims to provide an abstraction of the systemd's journald API in terms of QAbstractItemModel classes. The main purpose is to ease the integration of journald into Qt based applications (both QML and QtWidget).
