bktail2

bktail2 is a simple log viewing / monitoring program.

Intention

What started out as a Java 8 learning exercise, turned into a quiet powerful little log file viewing program.

Features

• handles large log files up to 500 MB.
• log file monitoring ( detects creation, modification, deletion ).
• multi drag & drop support.
• monitors multiple log files simultaneously.
• customizable highlighting colors.
• search function relative to the viewing position.

Building

Since this is a Java 8 and Maven based project, you have to make sure that you have Java 8 and Maven 3 installed on your system.

To build bktail2 simply execute:

mvn clean install

License

This project is licensed under the "Apache Software License, Version 2.0".

Known issues & limitations

• The search shortcut keys crtl+f | cmd+f are only responding after clicking into the log file area.
• Loading times increasing to the end of log files. This may has something to do with the line based reading mechanism.

try (Stream<String> stream = Files.lines(logfileReadInput.getPath())) {
	stream.skip(logfileReadInput.getFrom()).limit(limit)
		.forEach(lineRange::add); 
} catch (Throwable e) {
	// 
}

• Line counting takes to long for file sizes above 500 MB.