Looking for a log file browser and annotation program
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Does anyone know of a program suitable for browsing diagnostic log files, the kind typically written using, for example, log4net. The kind of logging a programmer puts in a program with lots of log.Debug() calls to create a log file for later analysis. Log files for when the program does not work correctly and you (the programmer) have to try to find the bug by looking at the log file. Not live analysis, after-the fact problem-finding. What I envision is a program that can be used by the programmer to open the log file, and browse around in it, highlight and "bookmark" some lines that look interesting, mark other lines and hide them to reduce the clutter, maybe mark and highlight all lines that contain certain text. Make it easier to peruse the file and finally find the clues to the problem. Thanks, Rennie
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Does anyone know of a program suitable for browsing diagnostic log files, the kind typically written using, for example, log4net. The kind of logging a programmer puts in a program with lots of log.Debug() calls to create a log file for later analysis. Log files for when the program does not work correctly and you (the programmer) have to try to find the bug by looking at the log file. Not live analysis, after-the fact problem-finding. What I envision is a program that can be used by the programmer to open the log file, and browse around in it, highlight and "bookmark" some lines that look interesting, mark other lines and hide them to reduce the clutter, maybe mark and highlight all lines that contain certain text. Make it easier to peruse the file and finally find the clues to the problem. Thanks, Rennie
Hi, how about Visual Studio, with outlining, bookmarks and #regions? :)
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Hi, how about Visual Studio, with outlining, bookmarks and #regions? :)
Luc Pattyn [Forum Guidelines] [My Articles]
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Thanks for the suggestion, but that's not exactly what I had in mind. I want something that is more purpose-designed for this sort of thing. Maybe I'll have to make one myself, based on one of the fairly powerful text editor components that you can get for .Net programming. Rennie