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A client called me back and said : there is a bug, here is the log. It’s a busy system and the log file reaches about 700 megabytes per day.

The problem is searching that log file, when you open it up in Visual Studio it takes a few minutes to open, and the searching is pretty slow. I figured there was a better way, and so went on to evaluate a few different tools.

From a 5 minute analysis, I retained two out of the four I tested.

The first one is Glogg, which is a free download and is purely a log viewer. You cannot use this tool to edit anything. It is a easy to use, very quick and I was searching my log file in no time, trying to make sens of what happened.

The second one that worked was Edit Pad Pro. It is not free but at the same time not very expensive. It does what Glogg can do and adds a nice feature which I enjoyed (Fold Lines) which basically just shows what you are looking for but hides the stuff in between in sections like we have in Visual Studio. I will be investing in this one for my future detective work.

The other I had evaluated were UltraEdit and Sublime Text, which are both good and capable text editors but lacked in searching through a 700 megabyte file.