WinTail Alternatives

WinTail is described as '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:' and is a web log analyzer in the network & admin category. There are more than 25 alternatives to WinTail for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, Self-Hosted and Flathub apps. The best WinTail alternative is LogExpert, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like WinTail are glogg, klogg, BareTail and LogViewPlus.

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  1. SnakeTail icon
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    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
     
  2. mTail icon
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    mTAIL is a Windows Program that works like the Unix Command TAIL. It's free, no ads, no pubs, no DLL... so enjoy !.

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  3. logsniffer icon
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    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued
    • Warning

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
     
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    Tail for Win32 is used to monitor changes to files; displaying the changed lines in realtime. This makes Tail ideal for watching log files.

    Cost / License

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    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.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  6. Logviewer icon
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    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", ".

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  7. LOG4VIEW icon
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    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.

    31 LOG4VIEW alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once)
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  8. JFollowTail icon
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    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  9. yata icon
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    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
     
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    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.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Warning

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  11. KJournald icon
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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

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    Platforms

    • Linux
    • KDE Plasma
     
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