SnakeTail Alternatives

SnakeTail is described as 'Windows tail application for monitoring text log files. You can also monitor Windows event logs. Multiple window modes are supported (MDI, Tabbed, Floating)' and is a web log analyzer in the network & admin category. There are more than 25 alternatives to SnakeTail for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, Self-Hosted and Flathub apps. The best SnakeTail alternative is LogExpert, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like SnakeTail are SPHW LogViewer, glogg, klogg and BareTail.

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  1. 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
     
  2. 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
     
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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
     
  4. 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
     
  5. 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
     
  6. 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

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  7. 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

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  8. 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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    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
     
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