Tail4win - windows tail. Tail4Win is a real-time log monitor and viewer, is a windows port of the UNIX 'tail -f' command, it can be used to view the end of a growing file.

By using Tail4Win system administrator can monitor log files of server applications in real-time, e.g. Apache's error.log and access.log, or IIS, Tomcat, Resin log files. And programmer can monitor application traces easy and quickly.

Tail4win can display the last part of a large file quickly without loading the entire file. And it is a file viewer only, it makes no changes to log files.

Main features:

Monitor changes to files and display the changed lines in real time.
Monitor files of any size quickly, no need to load the entire file.
Highlighting and filtering let you focus on important informations.
Watch multiple files at same time.
Real command line support, just like using Unix/Linux "tail" command.
Capture and display OutputDebugString (Windows debugging API) output.

Keywords: tail, windows tail, wintail, tail log, log monitor, win tail

Recent Changes: Fix bug "stream error when tail big file". Solve problem "CPU High usage after tail long time". Some bug fixes for Windows 2008/2012.

Install Support: Install and Uninstall

Supported Languages: English

Additional Requirements: Windows 2000 and above

PAD file URL: http://www.withdata.com/pad/Tail4win_pad.xml