A Better ULS Log File Viewer

While analyzing SharePoint ULS logs I felt the need for a better ULS log viewer. With more capabilities than the existing ones ^{1, 2}. I don't like them. They are either old, look ugly or don't provide the capabilities I need.

Time to create a better one. Time for Heu's ULS Viewer.

I will provide more information soon.

Update - Download Heu's ULS Viewer here.

Until then here are some teaser screenshots:

Main View

Main view of Heu's ULS Viewer

Features:

1.  Support for multiple log files
• file contents will be concatenated
• Drag & Drop support
• fast log file parsing
2. Extended filtering capabilities
• decide in which of the columns you want to filter
• two different filter types; you can choose to include items matching your search term, or to exlude items matching it
3. Grid view of all log entries
• sort by clicking column header
• fast sorting even for large data sets
• select multiple rows and copy them to clipboard by pressing Ctrl+C (good for quickly pasting them to a mail or support ticket)
4. Detailed display of selected log entry
• multi-line log entries are merged to one
• proper formatting of stack traces

Visualization

Visualization of message count over time

Visualizing SharePoint ULS log messages provides a general survey you don't easily get when looking at the raw log data. For now there are two series: one for the overall log message count (in blue) and one for the log messages with level "Unexpected" (in red).

The diagrams respect your current filters.

That's all for today. I hope you are as excited as I am. Stay tuned for more!