The Best 25 Retrospective Log Analyzer Alternatives

  • BareTail icon

    BareTail

    BareTail is a real-time log file monitoring tool.

    Freemium Windows

  • glogg icon

    glogg

    glogg is a multi-platform GUI application to browse and search through long or complex log files. It is designed with programmers and system administrators in mind. glogg can be seen as a graphical, interactive combination of grep and less.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

    Support for Large File Web log analysis
  • BareGrep icon

    BareGrep

    A free file finding and text searching tool: * Regular expression text search * High performance search algorithm * Wildcard and regular expression file search * Recursive directory search * Save, name and manage text search...

    Freemium Windows

    File search Support for regular expressions
  • Logwatch icon

    Logwatch

    Logwatch is a customizable log analysis system. Logwatch parses through your systems logs and creates a report analyzing areas that you specify. Logwatch is easy to use and will work right out of the package on most systems.

    Free Open Source Linux

  • Specto icon

    Specto

    Specto is a desktop application that will watch configurable events (such as website updates, emails, file and folder changes, system processes, etc) and then trigger...

    Free Open Source Linux

  • SnakeTail icon

    SnakeTail

    SnakeTail is a Windows tail application for monitoring text log files. You can also monitor Windows event logs. Multiple window modes are supported (MDI, Tabbed, Floating).

    Free Open Source Windows

    Portable Web log analysis
  • Microsoft Log Parser icon

    Microsoft Log Parser

    Log parser is a powerful, versatile tool that provides universal query access to text-based data such as log files, XML files and CSV files, as well as key data sources on the Windows operating system such as the Event Log, the Registry...

    Free Windows

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    logsniffer

    logsniffer is a sophisticated open source web tool for viewing, monitoring and analyzing log data. It provides a modern and intuitive end to end web interface and log...

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Self-Hosted

  • Hoo WinTail icon

    Hoo WinTail

    Hoo WinTail is a real-time log monitor and log viewer for Windows like the UNIX tail -f utility. It monitors your log and captures output in real-time. It can be used...

    Commercial Windows

  • Log Parser Lizard icon

    Log Parser Lizard

    Log Parser Lizard is a versatile GUI tool that provides query access (using SQL) to text-based data, such as log files, XML files, Event Logs, TSV/CSV text files, as well as databases like MS SQL Server, Google BigQuery, OLEDB (MySQL...

    Freemium Windows

  • Logviewer icon

    Logviewer

    The LogViewer Pro is a viewer for text log files. Features include: Fast scrolling, eats low memory Supports any file size (4 Gb and larger) Multitabbed...

    Free Personal Windows

  • JFollowTail icon

    JFollowTail

    Another free real-time log file monitoring tool. Made in Java. It's almost the same Baretail free edition but with the cappability of searching through the log...

    Free Open Source Windows Linux

  • WinTail icon

    WinTail

    WinTail allows you to view the last 64K of a growing text file in real time under Win32 operating systems. It's a bit like using the "tail -f" command...

    Free Windows

  • yata icon

    yata

    Yata is a general purpose log viewer and file monitor with a nice pretty GUI. "Yata" is an acronym for "Yet Another Tail Application", so named...

    Free Open Source Windows Linux

    Portable Web log analysis
  • Log Manager icon

    Log Manager

    Log Manager lets you view the contents of multiple log files as they're updated in real time. Basic features Display files on local/network Windows machines...

    Free Open Source Windows

  • Pacosoft Log Analyzer icon

    Pacosoft Log Analyzer

    LogAnayzer is a text editor specifically designed to analyze log files faster and easier by allowing the user to create, store and apply rules. When a log line contains...

    Freemium Windows Linux

  • LogViewPlus icon

    LogViewPlus

    LogViewPlus is a professional log viewer that can parse, read and analyse log files in a variety of different formats.

    Commercial

  • W3Perl icon

    W3Perl

    W3Perl is a free logfile analyzer for web, ftp, squid, cups, ssh, dhcp and mail server

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux