Bare Tail Log File Monitoring Tool

BareTail is a Log File Monitoring tool that you can leave running all the time and it will refresh file changes without ever locking the log files. It has a tab for every log file you would like to monitor and it can be set up for files that don't yet exist; it will start monitoring the file once it is created. 

Real-time file viewing

• Optimised real-time viewing engine
• View files of any size (> 2GB)
• Scroll to any point in the whole file instantly
• View files over a network
• Configurable line wrapping
• Configurable TAB expansion
• Configurable font, including spacing and offset to maximise use of screen space

Get it here: http://www.baremetalsoft.com/baretail/

Easily Script Out Paths to Log Files

If you call baretail.exe on a command line, you can give it paths to log files as parameters. Instead of doing that every time, you can script out paths in batch files. Below is a simple example of calling baretail.exe with paths to three log files on the same server.

SET SERVER=TEST

SET DIR=\Logs\Applications\

START baretail.exe \\%SERVER%%DIR%Application1.Console.log \\%SERVER%%DIR%Application2.Console.log \\%SERVER%%DIR%Application3.log

Notice that I put the server variable as the first line.  For each environment, my paths are exactly the same, so I only have to change the server variable.  Right now I am watching four log files for a set of applications we are creating.