Log4View
"Logging information at your fingertips"

Latest Version: 2.2.5 (24.8.2008)
	Product Overview A powerful and comfortable viewer for Log4net output Log4View 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 special TCP appender. Efficient viewing and filtering 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 thousands 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 not 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.

Internal buffer for outstanding flexibility The solution is to configure log4net to write all loggers at the most detailed level and let a viewer visualize only the currently needed log messages. Log4View is designed to do exactly this. It reads all log messages from the configured log appenders and stores them in an internal buffer. The user decides, which loggers should be displayed at which level. When the user decides to change the filter settings, previously hidden log messages are now displayed and vice versa. Log4View is designed to present the logging information to the developer as efficiently and comfortably as possible. Log4View is a pure .NET application, written in C#. Distributed applications Large solutions often consist of a number of distributed applications which communicate with each other. To find communication related problems, is can be useful to have a merged view of several log files. Log4View allows merging of different log sources in a single view. This can make debugging of distributed applications much easier.