LogExpert is a Windows tail program designed to provide a graphical user interface (GUI) replacement for the Unix tail command. It enables users to monitor and analyze log files in real-time with advanced features tailored for efficient log management.
Key Features:
Offering Tail mode, an MDI-interface with tabs, search functionality (including regular expressions), bookmarks, flexible filtering options, and columnizers (plugins that split log lines into columns). Additionally, LogExpert supports Unicode, log4j XML files, third-party plugins, and a portable setup for quick deployment.
Audience & Benefit:
Ideal for developers, system administrators, and anyone working with log files. It provides real-time monitoring, customizable filtering, and the ability to automate tasks via triggers or plugins. This makes LogExpert an essential tool for streamlining log file analysis and improving workflow efficiency.
LogExpert can be installed via winget, ensuring seamless integration into your development environment.
README
LogExpert
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Overview
LogExpert is a Windows feature rich tail program (a GUI replacement for the Unix tail command) with support for plugins, highlighting, filtering, bookmarking, columnizing and more.
Summary of (most) features:
Tail mode
MDI-Interface with Tabs
Search function (including RegEx)
Bookmarks
A very flexible filter view and possibility to filter to tab
Highlighting lines via search criteria
Triggers (e.g. create Bookmark or execute a plugin) via search criteria
Columnizers: Plugins which split log lines into columns
Unicode support
log4j XML file support
3rd party plugin support
Plugin API for more log file data sources
Automatical determine columnizer with given file name and content (Experimental)
Serilog.Formatting.Compact format support (Experimental)
Portable (all options / settings saved in application startup directory)
Download
Follow the Link and download the latest package. Just extract it where you want and execute the application or download the Setup and install it
Or Install via chocolatey
choco install logexpert
Requirements
.NET 10 ()
CI
This is a continous integration build. So always the latest and greates changes. It should be stable but no promises. Can be viewed as Beta.
Open the Solution (src/LogExpert.sln) with Visual Studio 2026 (e.g. Community Edition)
Restore Nuget Packages on Solution
Build
The output is under bin/(Debug/Release)/
Nuke.build Requirements
Chocolatey must be installed
Optional for Setup Inno Script 6.6.1
Resources / Translations
If you want to contribute translations or add new languages please use the ResXResourceManager Extension to add new or missing
translations for either German / English. With this extension its easy to add a new language as well:
