Log2Console

Log2Console was designed to be a development tool offering a nice UI to display, filter and search log messages from different logging services: log4net, log4j and log4cpp. It can directly receive log events locally or remotely or read them from a log file.

Using a similar concept to Chainsaw Receivers, the utility allows you view remote log events. In case you are unfamiliar, receivers have the role to provide support the collection of remote logging events from another process. At the same time, the receivers can be used to import the log messages from another logging package into the log4j environment. It goes without saying that the various settings in the environment are applied to the received logging events.

Considering that there may be numerous events in these logs, you will be happy to learn that the app all includes dynamic filtering, grouping, cycling and searching. Moreover, the app enables you to customize the interface and settings per Windows Profile so that you can only check the events that interest you.

It is worth mentioning that the utility supports a wide variety of file formats, including but not limited to standard logs, log4j, UDP and TCP IPv4 and IPv6, .NET Remoting, WinDebug, MSMQ, Windows Event Log and Silverlight Socket Policy.