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. Logspire icon
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    Logspire is a web-based log viewer. Open log files locally or remotely and tail them. FTP, HTTP, SSH supported. Keep track of multiple log files, local and remote, from your web browser, privately. Tail logs, search big files and bookmark lines for later from a nice interface.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    Log Manager lets you view the contents of multiple log files as they're updated in real time.

    42 Log Manager alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    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.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once)
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    Configuration Manager Trace Log Viewer – A tool used to view log files created by Configuration Manager components and agents.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    tail for Windows is a UNIX/Linux like tail DOS Command for Windows that designed to display last lines of a file and trace/monitor file's change. You can also intercept a file from specified line by using the redirection symbol.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    Nerdlog is a fast, remote-first, multi-host TUI log viewer with timeline histogram and no central server. Loosely inspired by Graylog/Kibana, but without the bloat. Pretty much no setup needed, either.

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    Platforms

    • Go (Programming Language)
    • Windows
    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  7. Logbert icon
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    Logbert is an advanced log message viewer for log4net, log4j and others. - couchcoding/Logbert

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  8. yeTTY icon
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    yeTTY is an open source application for embedded developers to view logs from serial port.

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    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
     
  9. Grafito icon
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    Grafito is a simple, self-contained web-based log viewer for journalctl. It provides an intuitive interface to browse and filter system logs directly from your web browser.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
     
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