LogMeister is a useful universal log reader that comes with powerful monitoring and notification facilities. Whether you're a home user, power user, developer or system administrator, you will love LogMeister's powerful yet easy to use features.
LogMeister captures data from disparate sources including text files, local and remote windows event logs and RSS feeds. It presents the results through a consistent, clear interface.
You can employ powerful filters to home in on a specific point of interest, or merge data from multiple logs to facilitate timeline analysis. In your absence, LogMeister will monitor incoming data and react to specific triggers by issuing alerts, running scripts and outputting new logs.
You can export raw logs or transformed data to multiple formats such as text, csv, xml, html. This makes it easy to transfer data to other programs such as Excel, or into databases. You can even publish your logs as RSS feeds, and create floating satellite views that filter and sort log data independently of the main view.
LogMeister is quick and easy to set up. Wizards guide you through most aspects of its configuration. It harvests log data from computers across your network without the need for additional installations.
This ease of use is complemented by considerable power and flexibility. For example, administrators and programmers can write scripts for LogMeister to run in response to criteria they have defined.
Designed for use on Windows NT/2000/XP/2003, LogMeister takes advantage of more recent operating system features where appropriate. Satellite windows can be semi-transparent under Windows 2000 and above. The entire application is theme-aware when running under Windows XP.
IMPORTANT: If the 'Install Service Component' option is selected, the service will be set to run under the same account as the application itself. This account MUST have administrator privileges and be password protected. Take care to enter the correct password during installation otherwise the service will not run.
You can install / uninstall the service component at any time simply by running the install wizard (the installation program) again. None of your settings will be affected by this, but it's always wise to take a backup before making any changes - see "Backing Up" in the Help for details.

· Auto load at start up
· Minimize to system tray
· XP Theme Aware
· Number of logs/machines that can be monitored restricted only by system resources
· Read text files, Event Logs, RSS files and ICF log files
· Powerful filtering capability with support for regular expressions
· Merge logs for easier analysis of sequential events across applications or network computers
· Create satellite windows to display different views of data
· Search logs
· Sort logs by any column
· Reorder, hide and show individual columns
· Special support for ICF log files, including auto lookup of a src/dest port number to see the most common uses of that port, and auto lookup of src/dest IP for name associated with the IP address
· Internal support for monitoring website availability, and generating logs
· View any log as a formatted HTML report
· Export any log, filtered feed or aggregate feed to RSS, XML, comma-separated (CSV) or tab-separated text files
· Convert any log into a live RSS feed
· Export any log, filtered feed or aggregate feed to a formatted html report and display it in your browser
· All html reports use cascading style sheets for easy customization
· All html reports use separate style sheets for printing and viewing
· Update RSS, CSV or txt files with new data as it arrives in the source log
· Monitor and raise alerts on text files, Event Logs, RSS files, ICF logs
· Monitor availability of website's using LogMeister's built in Site Watch component
· Control the frequency with which source logs are polled for new data
· Specify complex match criteria to search for events occurring within logs
· Task bar popup
· Play a system sound or .wav file
· Send an email with optional attachment
· Run an application, script or batch file
· Write to a log (text, CSV, RSS).

Requirements:
· IE6 for reports
· Win NT 4 requires SP6 + wmi core

Limitations:
· 30 days trial

What's New in This Release:
· Added new Date/Time tab to Event feed properties.
· Provides manual control over DST and timezone correction where needed (counters bugs in recent MS patches for Vista/Svr 2008)
· FIX - csv bug "Export to file".
· licensing bug on PCs with registry issues.
· date/time text parsing for 12 hr clock