Hoo WinTail Alternatives

Hoo WinTail is described as 'Real-time log monitor and log viewer for Windows like the UNIX tail -f utility. It monitors your log and captures output in real-time' and is an app. There are more than 25 alternatives to Hoo WinTail for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, Self-Hosted and Web-based apps. The best Hoo WinTail alternative is LogExpert, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Hoo WinTail are glogg, BareTail, LogViewPlus and Log Voyager.

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  1. Tail for Win32 icon

    Tail for Win32

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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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  2. logsniffer icon

    logsniffer

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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
    logsniffer screenshot 1
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  4. W

    WinTail

     1 like

    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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  5. GamutLogViewer icon

    GamutLogViewer

     1 like

    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

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
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    BarGraph (Professionnal only)
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  6. LOG4VIEW icon

    LOG4VIEW

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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.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    1) Message View The Message View shows a list of all selected messages. Message layout and color can be freely customized. The context menu offers are powerful selection of different filter techniques. 2) Message Details All details of the currently selected message are shown here. Resizable text boxes allow event the inspection of complex formatted log output like call stacks. 3) Logger Tree The logger tree shows all loggers in a hierarchical order and permits setting log level filters for each logger individually. The logger tree shows the selected log level of each logger. 4) Search Messages Use wildcards or regular expressions to find log messages. 5) Message Chart (Version 3.x) Visualize loggers as state chart, line chart or histogram.
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  8. Logviewer icon

    Logviewer

     3 likes

    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

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    Test log with highlighting
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  9. JFollowTail icon

    JFollowTail

     1 like

    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

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
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  10. yata icon

    yata

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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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    fLogViewer.net

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    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
    fLogViewer.net screenshot 1
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    Pacosoft Log Analyzer

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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

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Warning

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    Pacosoft Log Analyzer screenshot 1
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  13. G

    Goldilogs

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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
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    Easy to use Colour Highlighting Scheme Editor.
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  14. Log Manager icon

    Log Manager

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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
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