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It looks like the development on Chainsaw has stopped 4 years ago (last development build dated 2006-03-02)...

Anyone knows of a replacement tool providing the same functionality, but with more up to date releases?

Bergi
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I'm developing OtrosLogViewer. It's on Apache license and highly active. It has some interesting new features like automatic log events marking, highlighting part of log message, human friendly formatting soap messages and others.

Disclaimer: I am the author of OtrosLogViewer

Matt
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Log4j is dead in the water anyway. You might be better served by moving to SLF4j and Logback. Then, you can use Lilith to view your logs.

Edward Dale
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    Using logback pages to argue that log4j is dead in the water, is like using Microsoft pages to argue that Linux is dead in the water. I trust you know the history of logback? – Thorbjørn Ravn Andersen Jun 01 '10 at 11:39
  • True, that page should have been my argument to move away from log4j. The main log4j page (http://logging.apache.org/log4j/) could be an argument for log4j being dead in the water. "Dead in the water" is probably also a poor choice of words. "Mature" is probably more correct, as used on the log4j site. – Edward Dale Jun 01 '10 at 12:03
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    log4j 1.x is a 'mature' technology, but work is proceeding on log4j 2.0 at a rapid pace at the moment. See: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2 – Scott Jun 01 '10 at 23:44
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    Thorbjørn, the analogy would be relevant if Bill Gates had written Linux, which of course he did not. – Ceki Oct 27 '10 at 17:35
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    Lilith looks like it works with log4j... – Joseph Weissman Oct 01 '11 at 00:49
  • Why is it dead? There's an adapter from log4j to slf4j. – coder.in.me Dec 28 '21 at 11:36
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Massive updates coming to Chainsaw..see screenshots here or pull it down via svn + maven & give it a spin..

Screenshots show it tailing Android, palm logs, regular text log files, filtering, colorizing & search..

http://www.flickr.com/photos/79551761@N00/

And release notes in svn here: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/logging/chainsaw/trunk/src/main/resources/org/apache/log4j/chainsaw/help/release-notes.html?revision=946898&view=co

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    any update? It's more than a year later and I cannot find any release... Thanks. – mistaecko Nov 29 '11 at 13:13
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    There is a developer snapshot (Mac DMG and zip for windows and linux) available here: http://people.apache.org/~sdeboy – Scott Nov 29 '11 at 21:03
  • @Scott The v2.1 snapshot includes the delta millisecond column that was not available in the old release still referenced at [logging.apache.org/chainsaw](http://logging.apache.org/chainsaw/download.html). Thanks for the mentioning the snapshot! – bvj Aug 24 '14 at 21:56
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Haven't use this yet, but I like the concepts.

http://logio.org/

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Our product SmartInspect comes with a graphical log analysis and viewer tool. You can also integrate SmartInspect with log4j:


(source: gurock.com)

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Someone maintains the latest developer builds for Windows, Linux, and OS X here:

https://people.apache.org/~sdeboy/

Presumably they are built from this source code, but I am not sure:

https://svn.apache.org/viewvc/logging/chainsaw/trunk/src/

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