snaketail-net

Tail utility for monitoring text log files and Windows EventLog

• Monitor "large" text log files
• Monitor Windows Event Logs (Without needing administrator rights)
• Multiple Window Modes supported (MDI, Tabbed, Floating)
• Save and load entire window session. Can load session file at startup when given as command line parameter.
• Sentence highlight with colors based on keyword match (Includes regex support)
• Quickly jump between highlighted sentences using keyboard shortcuts
• Toggle bookmarks and quickly jump between bookmarks
• Configure external tools and bind custom shortcut key (Trigger execute on highlight)
• Tails circular logs where the log file is periodically truncated/renamed
• Tails log directory where the latest log file is displayed (Includes wildcards)
• Search in the entire text log file (or Windows EventLog)
• Highlight window tabs using icons, when file changes are detected
• Tail new log files with a simple drag drop from Windows Explorer
• Filtering of Windows Event Logs using regular expressions
• Display simple process statistics in window title bar (RAM + CPU usage + TRX/Sec)
• Stop and start services directly
• Change tail window background color
• Change tail window text color
• Change tail window icon
• Minimize to tray
• Low memory usage independent of log file size
• Low cpu usage even when more than 100 lines/sec
• Works well over remote desktop
• Supports Windows 2000, XP, 2003, Vista, Win2k8, Win7
• Requires .NET 2.0
• GNU GPL License v3