What is LogFactor5? - LogFactor5 is a Swing based GUI that leverages the power of log4j logging framework and provides developers with a sophisticated, feature-rich, logging interface for managing log messages.

How does it work? - LogFactor5 seamlessly plugs into log4j and provides developers with an alternate destination for outputting messages.

Benefits:

• Quickly isolate problems in your application.
• Enable only the categories that you are interested in without affecting other messages.
• Filter out priority levels you don't need.
• Filter out records based on NDC.
• Reduce the time required to locate specific messages.
• Read in and view log4j log files from either a file or a URL.
• Start the LogFactor5 GUI up independent of your application.

Features:

• Real-time category and log level filtering.
• Read log files from a file.
• Read log files from a URL.
• Customizable Log Table view.
• Category level tree navigation.
• NDC record filtering.
• Full text searching on logged messages.
• Save configuration and filtering settings for later sessions.
• Configure the number of log records to be displayed.
• Customizable record colors.
• Configurable font face and size.
• Customizable Log Table column layout.
• Full support for all log4j levels.
• Full support for custom levels.
• Dynamic message counting.

LogFactor5 System Requirements:

LogFactor5 requires Java (TM) Virtual Machine 1.2.2 and log4j 1.2 or later.

Documentation and Help

• All documentation is in HTML format.
• For additional documentation on logging, please see the Suggested Reading section.

Platform Support

• LogFactor5 is written in 100% Java and will work with any system supporting the Java 2 platform.