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Anyone come across a good program for rendering the text files of SharePoint Logs into a readable format? You know, some that that can order, filter, and hide columns?

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http://www.novolocus.com

Yes, It's a small webpart that sits in the Admin website and does all of the above... Now the hardpart, I can't remember what website I came across it on... Watch this space, I'll have a hunt..

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www.myfatblog.co.uk
MCTS: WSS 3.0
MCTS: MOSS 2007

It's not a webpart - but here is a tool that I'm writing to help administrators diagnose problems with their sharepoint farm.

http://www.codeplex.com/sharepointloggingspy

http://www.codeplex.com/sharepointloggingspy

Have you tried Excel?  Just right click the log file > select "open with" > choose excel.  It opens in a tabular format.  You can then add auto filters to slice and dice your data.  This does mean you need access to the filesystem of the SharePoint server or to create a share for the logs folder.

Hope this helps

Dave

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My SharePoint Blog http://www.davehunter.co.uk/blog

I open mine in Excel2007 - right click on the file and select open with and then select Excel

Don't open the log that is being written to at that time - make a copy.

Andy, I knew I'd find it if I kept hunting around..

This is a feature that plugs into your Central Administratio website. I haven't tried this yet, so not sure how good it is, however it seems to offer filtering capabilities that should help in debugging/troubleshooting.

http://blogs.msdn.com/chrisfie/archive/2007/05/15/analyzing-unified-logging-service-uls-logs-using-sharepoint-s-central-admin.aspx

Paul.

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www.myfatblog.co.uk
MCTS: WSS 3.0
MCTS: MOSS 2007

There is a great log file viewer:

http://www.codeplex.com/wssmosslogfilereader

 

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MCTS WSS3.0
MCTS MOSS2007
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http://mosscentral.blogspot.com/

I have tried few SharePoint log viewers but found the following one relatively more feature rich and user-friendly:

http://sharepointlogviewer.codeplex.com

The above SharePoint Log viewer can let you drag drop a log file, view multiple log files at once and you can do filtering on any field etc.

I like ULSViewer

http://ulsviewer.codeplex.com/

Easy to use.