Retrospective is a lean solution for IT people to manage enterprise log data on either Windows, Mac or Linux.




SnakeTail is described as 'Windows tail application for monitoring text log files. You can also monitor Windows event logs. Multiple window modes are supported (MDI, Tabbed, Floating)' and is a web log analyzer in the network & admin category. There are more than 25 alternatives to SnakeTail for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, Self-Hosted and Web-based apps. The best SnakeTail alternative is LogExpert, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like SnakeTail are SPHW LogViewer, glogg, BareTail and klogg.
Retrospective is a lean solution for IT people to manage enterprise log data on either Windows, Mac or Linux.




Tail for Win32 is used to monitor changes to files; displaying the changed lines in realtime. This makes Tail ideal for watching log files.

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 viewer to keep an eye on all your logs - in one place and in real-time.



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.



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.


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", ".

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.
