Monitoring your application – real-time

Wouldn’t it be nice if we could monitor our application while it is actually running? And by monitoring i mean watching what is happening , which method is being called right now and what are the arguments it has?

Apparently we can. All we need to do is write code that writes to a log file with any library we wish. We can use Enterprise library Logging application block or log4net (Or build something of our own).

When our application is running the log file is being appended with the new data. but we cant see what is being written there in real time. so , here is a nice cool tool that does exactly that : it watches the appended text, let you filter what ever you want no matter what the format line is and let you even color important words you wish to see.

It is called “WinTail” and can be downloaded from here.

Here is a snap shot of what it can do:

Enjoy.