glogg

glogg is a multi-platform GUI application to browse and search through long or complex log files. It is designed with programmers and system administrators in mind....

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux

LogExpert

LogExpert is a Windows tail program (a GUI replacement for the Unix tail command). LogExpert is free for non-commercial or commercial use. Summary of features: ...

Free Open Source Windows

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) *...

• Discontinued The latest version of the application is from November 2006.

Freemium Windows

Logwatch

Logwatch is a customizable log analysis system. Logwatch parses through your systems logs and creates a report analyzing areas that you specify. Logwatch is easy to use...

Free Open Source Linux

SnakeTail

SnakeTail is a Windows tail application for monitoring text log files. You can also monitor Windows event logs. Multiple window modes are supported (MDI, Tabbed...

Free Open Source Windows

BareGrep

A free file finding and text searching tool: * Regular expression text search * High performance search algorithm * Wildcard and regular expression file search *...

Freemium Windows

Microsoft Log Parser

Log parser is a powerful, versatile tool that provides universal query access to text-based data such as log files, XML files and CSV files, as well as key data sources...

• Discontinued The program is no longer updated. Last version, 2.2, released in April 2005, can be still downloaded from the official website.

Free Windows

logsniffer

logsniffer is a sophisticated open source web tool for viewing, monitoring and analyzing log data. It provides a modern and intuitive end to end web interface and log...

• Discontinued logsniffer is no longer maintained. Last version, 0.5.6, released in July 2016, can be still downloaded from GitHub.
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Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux Self-Hosted

LogViewPlus

LogViewPlus is a professional log viewer that can parse, read and analyse log files in a variety of different formats.

Commercial $ $ $ Windows

Hoo WinTail

Hoo WinTail is a 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. It can be used...

Commercial Windows

Log Parser Lizard

Log Parser Lizard is a versatile GUI tool that provides query access (using SQL) to text-based data, such as log files, XML files, Event Logs, TSV/CSV text files, as...

Freemium Windows

GamutLogViewer

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...

Freemium Windows

Specto

Specto is a desktop application that will watch configurable events (such as website updates, emails, file and folder changes, system processes, etc) and then trigger...

• Discontinued The program is not actively maintained anymore. Last version, 0.4.1, released in August 2011, can be still downloaded from the official website.

Free Open Source Linux

JFollowTail

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...

Free Open Source Windows Linux

WinTail

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...

Free Windows