Portable TailExpert

Portable TailExpert is a user-friendly and efficient software solution created to assist you in analyzing the contents of log files, regardless of their source, enabling you to search through the entries and determine the cause of various problems on your system, network or with your applications.

Subsequent to the download process, you can simply decompress the archive and run the executable, its portability translating into the ability to use it right away, without going through an installation process.

At the same time, this also means that Portable TailExpert can be stored and run from a removable memory device, such as a USB stick, enabling you to carry it with you wherever you need and using it on all compatible PCs, without a trace left on the host systems.

In terms of input files, the program supports LOG and TXT formats, allowing you to easily open existing items from your computer. At the same time, Portable TailExpert is capable of opening your Windows Eventlog or your UDP Socket Syslog and letting you watch as the log files expand.

The various entries can be highlighted or you can write down notes next to each line, adding information you feel might be important later. Similarly, you can resort to filters in order to only show entries that are of interest to you.

In what concerns the tools and components provided by Portable TailExpert, you can count on ‘Unsort’ and ‘AutoResize Columns’, ‘Copy to Clipboard’, ‘Jump to Line’, or ‘Compare Logs’ and several more, the last of which however lets you select two different files and juxtapose their contents for a more thorough analysis.

In closing, Portable TailExpert is a useful and comprehensive program that you can resort to for effectively analyzing log files, live-monitoring them as they grow and being able to highlight relevant aspects or jot down notes.