Apache Chainsaw successor? [closed]

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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?

Stabilizer answered 1/6, 2010 at 9:52 Comment(3)

There has been recent discussion on the log4j lists about an upcoming release of Chainsaw. – Moneymaking 1/6, 2010 at 11:51

Upcoming release soon - see answer below. – Corpse 2/6, 2010 at 0:17

Updated version of Chainsaw has been released - see logging.apache.org/chainsaw/2.x – Corpse 25/1, 2018 at 21:41

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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

Energid answered 5/7, 2011 at 12:49 Comment(0)

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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.

Prophecy answered 1/6, 2010 at 10:2 Comment(6)

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? – Moneymaking 1/6, 2010 at 11:39

True, that page should have been my argument to move away from log4j. The main log4j page (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. – Prophecy 1/6, 2010 at 12:3

log4j 1.x is a 'mature' technology, but work is proceeding on log4j 2.0 at a rapid pace at the moment. See: issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2 – Corpse 1/6, 2010 at 23:44

Thorbjørn, the analogy would be relevant if Bill Gates had written Linux, which of course he did not. – Harewood 27/10, 2010 at 17:35

Lilith looks like it works with log4j... – Honeysuckle 1/10, 2011 at 0:49

Why is it dead? There's an adapter from log4j to slf4j. – Barde 28/12, 2021 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

Corpse answered 1/6, 2010 at 22:35 Comment(3)

any update? It's more than a year later and I cannot find any release... Thanks. – Klingensmith 29/11, 2011 at 13:13

There is a developer snapshot (Mac DMG and zip for windows and linux) available here: people.apache.org/~sdeboy – Corpse 29/11, 2011 at 21:3

@Corpse The v2.1 snapshot includes the delta millisecond column that was not available in the old release still referenced at logging.apache.org/chainsaw. Thanks for the mentioning the snapshot! – Conrad 24/8, 2014 at 21:56

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Haven't use this yet, but I like the concepts.

http://logio.org/

Polyurethane answered 7/6, 2011 at 13:7 Comment(0)

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

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