Log file viewer for Eclipse

Question

I'm looking for a log file viewer plugin for Eclipse possibly having the following features:

• custom highlighting of lines
• custom line filters, possibly with regEx
• tail following

The discontinued Eclipse Logfile Viewer has nice highlighting but no line filters.

There seem to be good standalone programs like TraceTool which misses the highlighting and BareTail Pro.

Answer 1

Try Eclipse Log Viewer by Andre Bossert.

Answer 2

NTail could be what you are looking for (Ntail on Eclipse Market Place, Update Site).

(No longer supported since Q4 2012)

Standalone alternatives are listed in the question "Best tail (log file visualization) freeware tool ?"

Answer 3

you can use XpoLog center and browse your logs for the Eclipse built in web browser as this server is web based. it support log4j, log4net, log4perl, log4php and other log formats. XpoLog

Answer 4

Try to use JLV. It's is available as a plugin for Eclipse IDE with the current features:

• Getting logs by socket
• Quick filtering by any log’s field
• Detailed information about selected log
• Preferences page for controlling and saving plugin state
• Additional preference page for customizing logs’ representation

Answer 5

Seems I have to stay with the Eclipse Logfile Viewer.