Hoo WinTail is a real-time log monitor a
nd log viewer for Windows like the UNIX
tail -f utility. It could be used to vie
w the end of a growing file. It is ideal
for viewing application traces or serve
r log in real-time. You can view the las
t part of a large file quickly without t
he need to load the entire file. Hoo Win
Tail could capture and display OutputDeb
ugString (Windows debugging API) output
as well.
Hoo WinTail has many excellent features
for debugging program and system adminis
tration: highlight filters, include and
exclude filters, regular expression for
filters, monitor multiple log files, boo
kmarks support, minimize to systray and
flash systray icon to indicate new lines
written and so on.
Hoo WinTail is a file viewer only. It ma
kes no changes to log files. It opens lo
g files in read-only mode. When new line
s are written to log file by other progr
ams (e.g. your applications or web serve
r), Hoo WinTail reads the new lines and
displays them.
Hoo WinTail has an attractive and intuit
ive MDI and tabbed interface. You could
monitor and view multiple log files and
capture OutputDebugString output at the
same time.