
A Tail Utility for Windows with Many Great Features!
Hoo WinTail is a real-time log monitor and viewer for Windows like the UNIX tail -f utility. It can be used to view the end of a growing file. It is ideal for viewing application traces or server log in real-time. You can view the last part of a large file quickly without the need to load the entire file. Hoo WinTail can capture and display OutputDebugString (Windows debugging API) output as well.
Hoo WinTail has many excellent features for debugging program and system administration: highlight filters, include/exclude filters, monitor multiple log files, bookmarks support, minimize to systray and flash systray icon to indicate new lines written and so on.
Hoo WinTail is a file viewer only. It makes no changes to log files. It opens log files in read-only mode. As new lines are written to log file by other programs (e.g. your applications or web server), Hoo WinTail reads the new lines and displays them.
Hoo WinTail has an attractive and intuitive MDI interface. You can monitor and vier multiple log files and capture OutputDebugString output at a time.
Top 6 Benefits of Hoo WinTail:
1 . Monitor your application log, IIS log, Exchange Server log, FTP Server log and so on
Hoo WinTail monitors log files and displays the last part of them. It supports all kinds of log files. You also can monitor multiple log files at the same time.
2 . Capture and display OutputDebugString output
It's very useful for debugging program. OutputDebugString is a Windows debugging API. You can call it in all kinds of programming languages (VC/VB/C++ Builder/Delphi).
3 . Highlight phrase as custom text color and background color
Let you easy to see some phrases you concern.
4 . Send notification emails for specific highlight phrases occurrence
This feature is very valuable for administrators and security personnel. Administrators can watch for known problem "phrases" in various log files and notify the support personnel if they occur. Security personnel can watch for known issues in various log files (e.g. firewall log) and notify the proper people if suspicious activity is noted.
5 . Write the line that includes designated highlight phrase to a specified file
If you want to monitor a server log to extract the information that was generated by a specific IP address you can just set that IP address up as a "watch phrase" and all activity for that IP address would be extracted to the specified file.
6 . Easy to see new log data generated
Hoo WinTail will draw a red line to separate new text lines from old text lines when new data was captured and document is inactive or Hoo WinTail loses focus.
7 . DOS, UNIX and Unicode format log support
If you have these format logs you can monitor them using Hoo WinTail conveniently.
Hoo WinTail Key Features:
* Monitor all kinds of log files and display the last part of them in real-time
* Capture and display OutputDebugString output in real-time
* Tabbed Interface
* Highlight filters support
* Send notification emails for designated highlight phrases occurrence
* Write the line that includes specified highlight phrase to a specified file
* Include/Exclude filters support
* Draw a red line to separate new text lines from old text lines
* MDI interface - Monitor multiple log files and capture OutputDebugString output at the same time
* Minimize to systray and flash systray icon to indicate new lines written
* Bookmarks & Number Bookmarks support
* Indicate file size in window title bar
* Cut/Copy/Past/Delete displayed text arbitrarily, but make no changes to the monitored log files
* Refresh rate can be customized
* Text search support
* Display font can be customized
* Display buffer size can be customized
* Support DOS, UNIX and Unicode format log files
* Drag & drop support
* Command line support
Hoo WinTail News:
29 March, 2007 Hoo Win Tail v3.4 build 627 released new
- Support to enable/disable a highlight filter
- Support to customize tab size
- Added command "Save As"
- Added more shortcuts
- Fixed a bug
OS: Windows 95 / 98 / Me / NT / 2000 / XP / 2003 / Vista