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, Floating).
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application type
Platforms
- Windows
Tail for Win32 Alternatives
Tail for Win32 has been discontinued. Similar apps include LogExpert, which is free and open source. Other options are glogg, BareTail, LogViewPlus and Log Voyager. Log Analyzers like Tail for Win32 are a crowded field, with more than 25 alternatives for Windows, Linux, Mac, self-hosting and the web.
Alternatives list
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:
Cost / License
- Free
- Proprietary
Application type
Platforms
- Windows
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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.
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- Windows
United States
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.
Cost / License
- Freemium
- Proprietary
Application typeApplication types
Platforms
- Windows
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.
Platforms
- Windows
- Linux
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...
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application type
Platforms
- Windows
- Linux
fLogViewer.net is a free Windows program which allows one to view large log text files with color coding and filtering.
Cost / License
- Free
- Proprietary
Application type
Platforms
- Windows
F
A multi tail for Windows, designed to follow log files, highlight, search, filter, and much more. Embeded JSON viewer, XML extractor, send log to mail, save to file, etc.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (Unlicense)
Application typeApplication types
Platforms
- Windows
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The Absolute LogViewer is a fast, lightweight log file viewer built natively for Windows with WPF and .NET 10. Designed specifically for reading, tailing, and analyzing log files — not bloated with editor features you don't need.
Cost / License
- Free
- Proprietary
Application type
Platforms
- Windows
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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).
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (LGPL-2.1)
Application type
Platforms
- Linux
- KDE Plasma
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