Is there a user-friendly Log4Net log files viewer?

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Is there any third party tool that can recognize Log4Net log file structure and show it in a user friendly way by providing search functionalities etc?

Here's another one: http://www.log4view.com/log4view/ I've used it for several years and like it. — RenniePet, Nov 03 '15 at 02:16

score 22 · Accepted Answer · edited May 03 '19 at 14:06

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Try GamutLogViewer.

GamutLogViewer© is log file, logfile, viewer that works with Log4J, Log4Net, NLog, and user defined formats including ColdFusion. It supports filtering, searching, highlighting and many other useful features. This is a Windows application.

edited May 03 '19 at 14:06

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answered Jan 29 '13 at 07:20

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I prefer and recommend: http://yalv.codeplex.com/ – pinus.acer Feb 17 '14 at 10:20
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yalv.codeplex.com requires log files to be in XML format – Jeffrey Knight Mar 07 '14 at 14:27
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Note that log4net does allow you to output log files to XML using: – Leigh Aug 30 '14 at 14:29
The free version now contains lots of advertisements for the paid version. – Thomas Glaser Nov 27 '14 at 14:34
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no column filters in the free version – Anthony Brenelière Aug 27 '15 at 09:20
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In the free version, each line of an exception stack trace is displayed on its own line in the log view. So each exception fills 30 or so lines. Extremely annoying. – wezzix Jul 19 '17 at 08:32
And here is another one called LogViewer4Log4Net [https://github.com/rhessinger/LogViewerForLog4Net] – oakman Oct 10 '17 at 06:06
yalv moved here: https://github.com/LukePet/YALV – batintherain Nov 12 '21 at 10:42

score 9 · Answer 2 · edited May 03 '19 at 14:05

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BareTail is a very nice tool to monitor log files.

You can monitor multiple log files, and the Pro version supports search.

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I've got BareTail right here and I see no way to search anything. Is that in the paid version only? – PandaWood Dec 10 '13 at 00:55
@PandaWood We used the paid version so i think it won't be included in the free version. If i'm interested in some someware like that i'd try to find a way to use the full version(maybe if you know someone who has .... ) :) and if you like it buy a license. – JMan Dec 10 '13 at 06:03

score 7 · Answer 3 · edited Sep 23 '13 at 18:30

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This one looks promising:
http://yourlog4netviewer.codeplex.com/

Saw this one as well:
http://logexpert.codeplex.com/

Edited: this one as well:
http://insightextensions.codeplex.com/

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answered Feb 10 '13 at 00:35

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yourlog4netviewer requires changing your output to XML. While that may technically be easy, it may also be undesirable to impossible depending on your circumstances (it's unusable for me) – PandaWood Dec 10 '13 at 01:00
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logexpert is nice. It can perform actions based on regex matches or logfile rows, such as colour highlighting or even starting other processes! – Matthew Lock Aug 28 '14 at 00:15

score 5 · Answer 4 · answered Jan 29 '13 at 07:19

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You may want to look into Apache Chainsaw. It was designed for log4J which is what log4net was ported from so the two will work very well together

http://logging.apache.org/chainsaw/

You can display log messages directly to it via a UDP appender or log to an xml file that chainsaw can read.

http://logging.apache.org/log4net/release/howto/chainsaw.html

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There is a new version of Chainsaw in the works with a ton of additional features and improved usability - developer snapshot available here: http://people.apache.org/~sdeboy – Scott Jan 30 '13 at 22:06

score 1 · Answer 5 · answered Jan 29 '13 at 07:21

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Sure, try this one: http://www.l4ndash.com/. It's web based and the developer version is free but restricted to use on one machine and can be accessed from the same machine.

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