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.
Main features
- Runs on Unix-like systems, Windows and Mac thanks to Qt
- Provides a second window showing the result of the current search
- Supports grep/egrep like regular expressions
- Colorizes the log and the search results
- Displays a context view of where in the log the lines of interest are
- Is fast and reads the file directly from disk, without loading it into memory
- Follows a log that is written to disk in real time
- Allow to insert marks in the logs to interesting lines
- Supports vim/less like keyboard commands to move around the file
- Is open source, released under the GPL