Log4View Community Edition 2.2.5.0

Log4View application is a convenient viewer for XML formated Log4Net logging output. It can visualize and filter logging output from various log appenders such as UDP appenders, file appenders or even from a newly written TCP appender.
Software developers often use Log4Net as a powerful und flexible logging framework. It enables developers to use various hierarchical loggers to organize and filter the log output efficently.
However, visualizing the log files with a plain text editor is tedious and exhausting. Developers are often flooded with tons of log messages, which they are not interested in currently. Configuring the log4net output to filter the unwanted log messages can only be done by editing the XML config file, which is feasible but far from being convenient.
When the application is finally running with the desired filter settings, developers often notice after a certain event, that they should have added additional loggers to have more logging information around that event. This is not possible.
All they can do, is to adjust their log4net settings and wait for the next occurence of the relevant event. This can be very time consuming and is often quite frustrative.
Main features:
- Ergonomic visualization of logging output
- Dynamically growing logger tree showing all known loggers
- Type and layout of the visualized information is fully customizable
- Font and color of log messages can be individually selected, depending on logger name, log level, message text and other criteria
- Easy configuration of individual logger filter levels
- Use of a hidden message buffer enables visualization of previously filtered messages
- UDP receiver enables visualization of messages with the original Log4Net UDP appender
- TCP receiver can be used in conjunction with a TCP Appender, developed by prosa for reliable message transmission to Log4View
- File receiver enables visualization of messages with the Log4Net file appender
- Messages of different receivers can be consolidated in a common window or displayed in separate message windows
- Freely configurable filters allow filtering of messages at reception or display level
- Filter and search messages using wildcards and regular expressions
- Export log messages to files
- Print of all or a selection of log messages
- All receiver, filter and formatting settings can be saved to a configuration file and easily be restored
System requirements:
- Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0