KittyfistoTailviewer: Open source log file viewer

This is a simple Log File Viewer to show any Log File but optimized for files written by the NLog framework.

I regularly want to tail the log file to watch it as it starts up or to see the log in action when I am testing something.

Tailviewer is a free and active open-source log file viewer. Tailviewer is supported on Windows 7, 8 and 10 and requires .NET 4.7.1 or higher.

Overview. LogExpert is a Windows tail program (a GUI replacement for the Unix tail command). Summary of (most) features: Tail mode; MDI-Interface ...

Hover your mouse over said icon, it will say Monitoring (tail -f). Click this icon to begin viewing the log live as entries are added.

Tailviewer is a log file viewer for Windows that allows you to view text based log files both offline and in real-time. It is easy to use, incredibly fast ...

On windows how can I easily monitor a log file and see updates to the file in real time? Basically, same functionality like tail -f log_file on Unix systems.

Now, you should be able to use tail -n 20 -F logging_file.log to tail any file and show the last 20 lines. If you are on Linux/Unix and you want ...

I'm looking for the equivalent of the Unix 'tail' command that will allow me to watch the output of a log file while it is being written to.

I prefer BareTail and BareTailPro by Bare Metal Soft. You can highlight lines that contain certain strings and it is very quick to get going.