glogg - the fast, smart log explorer

glogg is a multi-platform GUI application that helps browse and search through long and complex log files. It is designed with programmers and system administrators in mind and can be seen as a graphical, interactive combination of grep and less.

Main features

Runs on Unix-like systems, Windows and Mac thanks to Qt
Provides a second window showing the result of the current search
Reads UTF-8 and ISO-8859-1 files
Supports grep/egrep like regular expressions
Colorizes the log and search results
Displays a context view of where in the log the lines of interest are
Is fast and reads the file directly from disk, without loading it into memory
Is open source, released under the GPL

Requirements

GCC version 5.0.0 or later
Qt libraries (version 6.2.4 or later)
Boost "program-options" development libraries
Markdown HTML processor (optional, to generate HTML documentation)

glogg version 0.9.X still support older versions of gcc and Qt if you need to build on an older platform.

Building

The build system uses qmake. Building and installation is done this way:

tar xzf glogg-X.X.X.tar.gz
cd glogg-X.X.X
qmake6
make
make install INSTALL_ROOT=/usr/local (as root if needed)

qmake BOOST_PATH=/path/to/boost/ will statically compile the required parts of the Boost libraries whose source are found at the specified path. The path should be the directory where the tarball from www.boost.org is extracted. (use this method on Windows or if Boost is not available on the system)

The documentation is built and installed automatically if 'markdown' is found.

Tests

The tests are built using CMake, and require Qt5 and the Google Mocks source.

cd tests
mkdir build
cd build
export QT_DIR=/path/to/qt/if/non/standard
export GMOCK_HOME=/path/to/gmock
cmake ..
make
./glogg_tests

Contact

Please visit glogg's website: http://glogg.bonnefon.org/

The development mailing list is hosted at http://groups.google.co.uk/group/glogg-devel