Developer(s) | Apache Software Foundation |
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Stable release | 2.1.0
/ June 6, 2021[1] |
Repository | Chainsaw Repository |
Written in | Java |
Operating system | Cross-platform |
Type | Logging |
License | Apache License 2.0 |
Website | http://logging.apache.org/chainsaw/ |
Chainsaw is a java-based GUI software tool to view and analyze computer log files - specifically logs generated by the Log4j logging system. Both Log4j and Chainsaw are Open source projects under Apache Software Foundation. The latest release is Chainsaw v2.[2] Chainsaw can read log files formatted in Log4j's XMLLayout
, receive events from remote locations, read events from a DB, or work with JDK 1.4 logging events.
The project is licensed under Apache License, V 2.0. Dependencies may not follow the same licensing.[3]