ChainSaw - Log4J Gui Log Viewer
Submitted by Antony Marcano on Tue, 15/08/2006 - 10:47.
useful utilities
[textile]"Chainsaw":http://logging.apache.org/log4j/docs/chainsaw.html - Log4J Gui Log viewer:
Heres just a brief run down of some of the features of Chainsaw v2: * View remote events - Remote events are "received" by Chainsaw using Log4j 1.3's new Receiver concept. * Saved Preferences - You can fully customize each Tab the way you want it, and it will restore it's state the next time. * Responsive - When events are screaming in, you don't want the GUI to meltdown. You can control how responsive the GUI is and determine the frequency of updates. * Tabs/Docking - Chainsaw routes separate applications/remote hosts' events to a unique Tab within the GUI. These tabs can be undocked from the main window. Using these features you can manage multiple application logs using the one GUI. * Coloring - You can specify your own rules to color each event row depending on the attributes of a LoggingEvent to help you locate important events. * Dynamic and powerful filtering - Helps you locate stuff. There's support for quick-and-dirty filtering, right through to advanced expression-based filtering (e.g. "LOGGER == 'com.mycompany' && LEVEL == ERROR" ). * Cyclic - A tab view can support a Cyclic-based model, which constrains it's view to the last X events, ensuring you don't hog memory. This is great for monitoring live applications. * Built-in documentation and tutorial - HTML-based documentation included in the package. from apache.orgThanks to "Rachel Davies":http://www.twelve71.org/blogs/rachel/ for bringing it to my attention.
