Log4View Community Edition

Log4View application is a convenient viewer for XML formatted Log4Net logging output. It can visualize and filter logging output from various log appenders such as UDP appenders, file appenders or even from a newly written TCP appender.

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 tons 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 far from being 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.