View Log

It's a great idea to view log file with Hoo WinTail. As highlight filter, and include and exclude filters help you to filter lines you don't want to see, or show lines just you need to see and highlight some special phrases.

It's easy to view log with Hoo WinTail. The software opens log files in read-only mode. When new lines are written to log file by other programs, Hoo WinTail reads the new lines and displays them. You can view the last part of a large file (up to 100 GB) quickly without the need to load the entire file. Hoo WinTail is a file viewer only. It makes no changes to log files. And, Hoo WinTail has an attractive and intuitive MDI interface. You can view multiple log files at a time.

It's an ideal software to view your application logs, server logs, and web logs, for example, Apache logs, IIS logs, Exchange logs, and so on.

The following features help you to view log.

MDI & Tabbed Interfaces View multiple logs at a time Click tab item or move cursor to tab bar and scroll mouse wheel to switch log windows You can set a color mark for special tab item of log Hoo WinTail will flash tab icon of inactive document when new data of the document were captured

Highlight Filters Highlight designated phrases with custom text color and background color Highlight entire line that line includes highlight phrases Send notification emails for designated highlight phrases occurrence Write the line that includes specified highlight phrase to a specified file

Include/Exclude Filters Include Filter: A line must include specific phrases then it can be shown Exclude Filter: A line will not be shown if it includes specific phrases

Red Line Hoo WinTail will draw a red line to separate new text lines from old text lines when new data was captured and document is inactive or Hoo WinTail loses focus Press F12 to move to next red line and press Shift+F12 to move to previous red line

Bookmarks & Numeric Bookmarks Hoo WinTail supports bookmarks and numeric bookmarks Double-click left-margin to toggle bookmark

File Size Hoo WinTail indicates file size in window title bar Hoo WinTail can check whether log file were truncated automatically You can use command "File -> Truncate" to truncate current log file

Command Line Hoo WinTail supports command line to open logs and capture OutputDebugString output Hoo WinTail supports the following command line arguments. WinTail.exe [-d] [filename1] [filename2] ... [filenameN] "-d" means capturing OutputDebugString output

Press Ctrl and Roll Mouse Wheel Normal wheel means vertical scroll. If you press Ctrl and roll wheel, Hoo WinTail scrolls window horizontally

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