glogg – the fast, smart log explorer

glogg is a multi-platform GUI application that helps browse and search through long and complex log files. It is designed with programmers and system administrators in mind and 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
• Reads UTF-8 and ISO-8859-1 files
• Supports grep/egrep like regular expressions
• Colorizes the log and 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
• Is open-source, released under the GPL

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