I personally use mTail to check text log files under windows.
Vinko Vrsalovic
2008-09-08 20:33:09
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I'm thinking of something that let's me go to a central place to view logs for all applications.Text file lots are very hard to sift through.
Ben Scheirman
2008-09-08 20:35:12
None of those are for application logging frameworks like Enterprise Library Logging or log4net.I don't need a Windows Event Log viewer.
Ben Scheirman
2008-09-08 20:43:46
I really do not understand what you want, you say the logging goes to the event log and a flat file, and that you want centralized logging. But you don't want to see the event log nor the text files nor centralized event log solutions... could you elaborate?
Vinko Vrsalovic
2008-09-08 20:51:32
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Microsoft's Log Parser (http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/tools/logparser/default.mspx) rocks. It works with the Event Log (as well as many other inputs) like you want, provides tons out query options (including T-SQL!), and outputs to just about anything you want.
TechRepublic has a brief overview here: http://articles.techrepublic.com.com/5100-10878_11-5034923.html.
Further, TechNet (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb878032.aspx) demonstrates how to pump data to a SQL DB and generate reports.
fatcat1111
2008-09-08 20:53:37
I'm thinking of something web-based, centralized so that all of our applications can log to 1 database, and we can drill down based on application, user, time of day, whatever.
Ben Scheirman
2008-09-08 20:57:06
I suppose that might work... but it's WAY overkill for what I'm thinking of. I'll edit the post with some more detail
Ben Scheirman
2008-09-08 21:20:00
I can't get splunk 4 to capture my log, is there a tutorial somewhere i could look at?
Keivan
2009-08-07 18:11:06
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Ben, If you like the log4net dashboard, I would just like to mention that the log4net Dashboard has provider architecture for log source providers, this means that you can write your own provider to read whatever log source you have and get it populated into log4net dashboard.
Log4net Dashboard comes with a SDK that contain the documentation of the provider interface as well as the source code for the standard providers (log4net SqlServer, log4net Oracle, log4net xml and an eventlog provider).
The log levels displayed within the Dashboards is decided by the provider all the log4net providers use the log4net levels (ie. Fatal, Error, Debug, Info). But the EvenLog provider uses the standard event log levels (Error, Audit Failure, Warning and Info). An Enterprise lib provider could use the levels used within Enterprise library.
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I would like to view my Logs in DB done using Enterprise Lib, all these suggestions or for event log or flat file. Any suggestion for DB, it needs to be free to use and no customization needs to be done.
Basit
2009-08-19 11:40:36
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You can try YouLog4NetViewer, it's open source en Codeplex : http://yourlog4netviewer.codeplex.com/
Olivier
2010-07-01 13:41:38
This one is great for viewing log4net log files that are in xml format.
Kilhoffer
2010-08-22 13:31:07
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even I am looking for a good log viewer to view logs on my sql server db (i am using log4net) currently , has the author of the question found a good log viewer for viewing log4net log files stored on a db ?
Gokul
2010-07-20 17:09:45
so for Log4net , ud recommend L4NDash as the best log viewer for db logs ?
Gokul
2010-07-21 03:15:32