In my opinion, a good trade-off.Īll of that aside, a dedicated log viewer will generally just have more logging-specific features than a text editor, no matter how pretty you can make them. It’s great that I can format my logging through the application, but if I have the option to use a log viewer that doesn’t require formatting, why not use it? By letting the log viewer do the heavy lifting, I can simplify my application.
#LOG FILE VIEWER CODE#
I didn’t love dedicating so much application code to formatting logs when the visualization can be done by the log viewer itself instead. Yet, it’s not the kind of thing I want to use for every project. After spending some time configuring log outputs, I was impressed with the library and love that it’s an available option. It was more than capable of making readable, detailed logs, even with standard Notepad. While I didn’t use any text editors for the sake of that article, I did look extensively at the Serilog Expressions Library, a very detailed and powerful text formatting library designed to make reading text files easier. It’s an issue that caught my eye when testing out live logging options with Serilog. It’s not the fault of Notepad ++, but of targeting text editors as the log viewer in general. But it struggles to have the same convenience. It can even have some of a dedicated log viewer’s functionality and features with the right plugins. It’s a highly customizable text editor that blows Notepad out of the water with its feature set. It should be an option for when you have no other options, yet it’s the first tool many use to view a log! If you are running a computer that can connect to the internet, there are other options, and they’re worth investigating. If you are working with a simpler program, it may even be kind of manageable.īut it’s the equivalent of watching a film on an airplane over a person’s shoulder. This will seem like a fine process at first. Click on the file, and it automatically opens up in Notepad. Overall, finding the right dedicated log viewer for your project will make you a better-equipped developer with the proper tool to quickly solve challenging problems. When you are staring down thousands of lines in a log file, trying desperately to figure out a problem, you will wish you had put some thought into it (or at least that’s what I felt numerous times in the past). But I think it’s a blind spot for some developers where more thought and having an opinion is beneficial. In my experience, it was never even a question until working with Loupe.
#LOG FILE VIEWER WINDOWS#
Whether that’s insisting on using Linux over Windows or Atom when the job requires an IDE like Visual Studio, not being on the same page complicates things.īut how much time is spent finding or discussing the preferred log viewer? In turn, you want your team to use the best tools ( hopefully the same tools), and someone going off-script can cause problems. Developers put a lot of thought into picking the best tools for their job. With some distance and time in the industry though, I can understand why some people care deeply. In general, I don’t believe liking one IDE or text editor over another is a red flag. So when I got home, I started getting familiar with actual IDE options and learning the differences between them. Probably because Atom wasn’t really an IDE at the time. I remember a job interview where I was asked, “what’s your IDE of choice?”Įven though the interview continued, I’m pretty sure my chances started to slide off the proverbial cliff. Problems in huge logs generated by embedded systems.I think it is safe to say that some developers can be particular about their tools. Glogg has been primarily developed to help spot and understand With complex regular expressions allows easy isolation of the It presents a results window which, together Glogg enables you to use regular expressions to search for interestingĮvents in your log files. It could use a few more features but does 95% of everything I need it to do, it is open source, written in C++ using Qt and runs on Linux/Windows/Mac. It makes finding stuff in noisy log files very easy.
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