SharePoint ULS Log Viewer

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KeirGordon — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 03:44:08 GMT

Project Description
A windows application for viewing SharePoint ULS log files more easily. Supports filtering and easy viewing of data.

Note: Many people have commented that since this projects release, Microsoft has released a viewer (by the same name!). It apparently has more features (although some problems of its own). You may want to check it out too: http://archive.msdn.microsoft.com/ULSViewer/

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Please note that this project has not been updated for many years. Keep in mind this product was released a year or more before the MS product of the same name (At a time when there were no alternatives). Many people still find it useful because it can be used on any machine, so I have left it here for now.

This is a WPF application powered by LINQ.

The current release (2.0) has the following features:

- Parse and open multiple SharePoint ULS logs (will concatenate them if you select multiple)
- Reorder and resize columns, sort on any column
- Filter by Severity, Category, and Process or a custom text filter/search
- Group multi-line stack traces into single log entries for easy viewing and copy/paste
- View message easily in separate pane (No more scrolling in notepad)

There is currently no formal documentation. The instructions are simple. Open the application, press the 'open' icon on the toolbar, and choose a SharePoint log file (or several). You may filter files by choosing from the filter drop down boxes, and unfilter by choosing the wildcard ("*") filter. You may also do a search by using the free text filter. All filters are 'AND' operations.

You can contact me, or follow updates to this project from my blog at:

http://www.stefangordon.com

Or via RSS at: http://feeds2.feedburner.com/StefanOnSharepoint

New Post: pethatic log viewer

robocop007 — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 02:44:24 GMT

this is one worse log viewer for sharepoint one shold go for UlsViewer.exe.

New Post: in a farm, how to find specific correlation id?

RobinTheHood — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 16:27:59 GMT

so in dev single server finding a correlation id is easy, my qa farm has 4 app/wfe servers, and production has 6.

nailing down a specific correlation id in those environments is a bit of a scavenger hunt.

Suggestions please!

Reviewed: ULS Viewer (Version 2.0) (Dec 09, 2012)

alirobe — Sun, 09 Dec 2012 23:05:48 GMT

Rated 1 Stars (out of 5) - Awful product. Uses the same name as the official MSDN "ULSViewer", which creates confusion. Useless - shouldn't be on CodePlex.

Source code checked in, #81799

Project Collection Service Accounts — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 21:57:23 GMT

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Source code checked in, #81798

Project Collection Service Accounts — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 21:51:05 GMT

Checked in by server upgrade

New Post: Correlation Filter

jseger — Thu, 02 Aug 2012 12:20:52 GMT

I add a correlation id filter. Want to submit changes, but can't. :(

Reviewed: ULS Viewer (Version 2.0) (Nov 02, 2011)

mulawam — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 10:33:07 GMT

Rated 5 Stars (out of 5) - Very useful, thx. I won't use notepad to view logs anymore.

Patch Uploaded: #10022

3p14 — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 14:28:39 GMT

3p14 has uploaded a patch.

Description:
proposal for solution of issue 11124 (unfortunately in vs2010 - format)

Created Issue: Filtering by Area not possible [11124]

3p14 — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 14:25:58 GMT

Filtering by area would be nice.

New Post: Filter by correlation id

brynnborton — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 15:38:37 GMT

It would be good if you added a filter by correllation id, the text filter only seems to filter the message.

Reviewed: ULS Viewer (Version 2.0) (Feb 15, 2011)

keris — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 10:47:34 GMT

Rated 5 Stars (out of 5) - Not so much features as ms viewer, but works locale independent ... After the October CU of SP ms ulsviewer needs to run under en locale to understand the logs

Reviewed: ULS Viewer (Version 2.0) (Jan 13, 2011)

moontear — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 13:10:00 GMT

Rated 3 Stars (out of 5) - The Microsoft ULS Viewer is better (more features e.g. real-time logging, better filtering) http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/ULSViewer/

Reviewed: ULS Viewer (Version 2.0) (nov 15, 2010)

hn — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 18:54:38 GMT

Rated 3 Stars (out of 5) - Haven't testing this good enough, but compared to the http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/ULSViewer/ it doesn't looks like it has a lot of the same feature.

Reviewed: ULS Viewer (Version 2.0) (nov 15, 2010)

hn — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 18:51:10 GMT

Rated 5 Stars (out of 5) - This is an excellent tools for SharePoint releated work. Created a custom logger, and then using UlsViewer both in development and test environment to filter custom logging events + those cirtical and unexecpted. Stable and roboust!

Created Issue: Text filter doesnt search in correlation id [9091]

AndersR — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 11:31:13 GMT

9 out of 10 times in need to look in the log files, it is because i want to find a relevant correlation id.

But when i search for the correlation id, even though i know it is there.

Clearly if would make a ton of sense to do a lookup in the correlation id column when using this excellent tool in SharePoint 2010 ?

Source code checked in, #55578

_TFSSERVICE — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 20:06:06 GMT

Checked in by server upgrade

Reviewed: ULS Viewer (Version 2.0) (Mar 17, 2010)

prefontaineman1 — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 20:51:58 GMT

Rated 5 Stars (out of 5) - I've only used this for about 10 minutes but already it's helping immensely. The interface is very intuitive, simple, and powerful. Thanks Stefan!

Commented Issue: ULS Viewer not working on x64 [3832]

BryanVanRijn — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 09:29:38 GMT

ULS Viewer not working on x64, does anyone has the same experience???
Comments: ** Comment from web user: BryanVanRijn **

Copied the logfiles on my W7 machine (x64) and that will run.

Commented Issue: ULS Viewer not working on x64 [3832]

BryanVanRijn — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 06:50:10 GMT

ULS Viewer not working on x64, does anyone has the same experience???
Comments: ** Comment from web user: BryanVanRijn **

Same here... Can pick a logfile, but than shuts down.