mTail Alternatives

mTail is described as 'MTAIL is a Windows Program that works like the Unix Command TAIL. It's free, no ads, no pubs, no DLL... so enjoy !' and is an app. There are more than 25 alternatives to mTail for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, Docker and Web-based apps. The best mTail alternative is LogExpert, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like mTail are SPHW LogViewer, glogg, BareTail and LogViewPlus.

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    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
     
  2. 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
     
  3. 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
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  4. 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

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  5. 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
     
  6. 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
     
  7. yeTTY icon
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    yeTTY is an open source application for embedded developers to view logs from serial port.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
     
  8. 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

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • KDE Plasma
     
  9. 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
     
  10. 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
     
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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.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Go (Programming Language)
    • Windows
    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
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