Free tools to read log4net files from a remote server

Question

Are there any good free tools that can let me intercept the log4net log file when this file is created on a production server?

I am thinking about setting it up to click on a database and read the database, but that seems redundant for something pretty simple. Am I missing an obvious tool?

Answer 1

We tend to use the log4net Remote Logging Service so that the logs are downloaded over the network and not on the disk of the production server.

Then the service can be configured to host the logs in a file on the host machine.

Then we use log2console to view the log file if the log file is in a network resource or you are working directly on a logging machine.

It’s not clear what your requirements are, but if you have access to the network share where the log file is located, you can simply point it to log2console and view it.

Answer 2

Consider adding a Chainsaw Appender to your log4net configuration, and then run log2console to get / filter / analyze the log as it is created.