Hoo WinTail is a real-time log monitor and viewer for Windows like the UNIX tail -f utility. It can be used to view the end of a growing file. It is ideal for viewing software traces or server log in real-time. You can view the last part of a large file quickly without the need to load the entire file. Hoo WinTail can capture and display OutputDebugString (Windows debugging API) output as well.

Hoo WinTail has many outstanding features for debugging software and system administration: highlight filters, include/exclude filters, monitor multiple log files, bookmarks support, minimize to systray and flash systray icon to indicate new lines written and so on.

Hoo WinTail is a file viewer only. It makes no changes to log files. It opens log files in read-only mode. As new lines are written to log file by other programs (e.g. your applications or web server), Hoo WinTail reads the new lines and displays them.

Hoo WinTail has an attractive and intuitive MDI interface. You can monitor and vier multiple log files and capture OutputDebugString output at a time.

Top 7 Benefits of Hoo WinTail:

Monitor your software log, IIS log, Exchange Server log, FTP Server log, and so on

Hoo WinTail monitors log files and displays the last part of them. It supports all kinds of log files. You also can monitor multiple log files at the same time.
Capture and display OutputDebugString output

It's very useful for debugging program. OutputDebugString is a Windows debugging API. You can call it in all kinds of programming languages (VC/VB/C++ Builder/Delphi).
Highlight phrase as custom text color and background color

Let you easy to see some phrases you concern.
Send notification emails for specific highlight phrases occurrence

This feature is very valuable for administrators and security personnel. Administrators can watch for known problem "phrases" in various log files and notify the support personnel if they occur. Security personnel can watch for known issues in various log files (e.g. firewall log) and notify the proper people if suspicious activity is noted.
Write the line that includes designated highlight phrase to a specified file

If you want to monitor a server log to extract the information that was generated by a specific IP address you can just set that IP address up as a "watch phrase" and all activity for that IP address would be extracted to the specified file.
Easy to see new log data generated

Hoo WinTail will draw a red line to separate new text lines from old text lines when new data was captured and document is inactive or Hoo WinTail loses focus.
DOS, UNIX and Unicode format log support

If you have these format logs you can monitor them using Hoo WinTail handyly.

Hoo WinTail Key Features:
Monitor all kinds of log files and display the last part of them in real-time
Capture and display OutputDebugString output in real-time
Tabbed Interface
Highlight filters support
Send notification emails for designated highlight phrases occurrence
Write the line that includes specified highlight phrase to a specified file
Include/Exclude filters support
Draw a red line to separate new text lines from old text lines
MDI interface - Monitor multiple log files and capture OutputDebugString output at the same time
Minimize to systray and flash systray icon to indicate new lines written
Bookmarks & Number Bookmarks support
Indicate file size in window title bar
Cut/Copy/Past/Delete displayed text arbitrarily, but make no changes to the monitored log files
Refresh rate can be customized
Text search support
Display font can be customized
Display buffer size can be customized
Support mass file (>4GB)
Support DOS, UNIX and Unicode format log files
Drag & drop support
Command line support The license of this windows utility software is Free Trial Software, the price is $49.95, you can free download and get a free trial before you buy. If you want to get a full or nolimited version of Hoo WinTail, you can buy this system utility software.