Is there a log viewer for vnext build log?

Question

When you look at the vnext build in TFS 2015, I often see this:

The log is too large to display in the browser. You can download build logs and view them offline.

eg.

When downloading, they are only text files, and although notepad can open them, you will not get the beautiful coloring that you do if they are on the screen, which emphasizes warnings and errors.

Is there an app to make browsing easier?

Answer 1

There is no parser for this purpose (parsing the TFS vNext log file).

However, there are many Log Parser tools available that can do this. The following publication is a (opinion-based) list of journal parsers that may be useful:

• What is the best magazine analysis tool you've used?

TFS build logs are space-separated and hierarchically organized, so this can affect which tools are appropriate for the task. Perhaps the rules may be set to format / color based on tokens such as ##[debug] or ##[warning] .

It seems to many that Log Parser (based on the command line) along with the GUI that is on top of it, given that it supports queries.

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