tail for Windows Alternatives

tail for Windows is described as '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' and is an app. There are more than 25 alternatives to tail for Windows for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, Self-Hosted and Web-based apps. The best tail for Windows alternative is LogExpert, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like tail for Windows are glogg, BareTail, LogViewPlus and Log Voyager.

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  1. The SPHW LogViewer is the perfect companion for software developers or administrators. With its functions, you can easily keep an overview and track down problems very quickly. The SPHW LogViewer was developed with the aim of sustainably improving the productivity as well as the...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
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  2. 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

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    • Windows
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  3. 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

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    • Windows
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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

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    • Windows
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  5. 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.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
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  6. 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
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  7. 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

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    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
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  8. 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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  9. 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).

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    • Linux
    • KDE Plasma
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  10. 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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  11. 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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  12. 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

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    • Windows
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