Useful software for analysing applications logs and traces.

Installation documentation

You can download the latest version from Github releases

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Developing on OtrosLogViewer

• Loading logs from remote servers using ftp, sftp, ssh, samba and others (supported file systems)
• Tailing logs from local disk and sftp
• Parsing logs from clipboard
• Decompressing "gziped" and "ziped" logs on the fly
• Parsing custom log patterns
• Log events searching using regular expression
• Log filters
• Pluginable log filters
• Log highlightings
• Automatic log highlightings based on string match, regular expression or custom Java code
• Pluginable log details formatters and colorizers (i.e. SOAP message)
• Pluginable log highlightings
• Pluginable log parsers
• Listening on a socket
• Adding notes to log event
• Saving/loading log investigation (with added marks and notes)
• Integration with IntelliJ IDEA and Eclipse
• Integration with stackoverflow.com

• Java Util Logging XMLFormatter
• Java Util Logging SimpleFormatter
• log4j/logback pattern layout (can parse log4j, log4j2 and logback configuration). User can also define log format manually
• Custom JSON format
• Log4j2 JSON layout
• log4j XMLLayout removed due to Log4j security issue

• String
• Regular expression
• Level
• Time
• Highlighted
• Class
• Thread
• Highlighted
• With note, marked

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• Apache commons: net, lang, vfs, httpclient, logging, collections, compress, io
• log4j
• VFSJFileChooser
• Jakarta ORO
• jCIFS
• jSch
• fugue icons
• MigLayout
• Trident animation library
• JGoodies Looks

• log.io
• Apache chainsaw
• Lilith
• eclipse logviewer
• Vigilog
• JLogViewer

Please take a look at the dev-resources folder for development conventions and guidelines.

If you have any questions please write to otros.systems at gmail.com

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