SharePoint 2010 revised ULSViewer

From time to time I get questions from folks asking me “What is the best debugging tool for PowerPivot?” – The Answer is that there is clear cut favorite and it is EXTREMELY useful, but I didn’t know that it was released to the public. Well . . . after some investigation, it looks like it is available – not only that, it has been for a while. But better late than never . . take a look at it!

http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/ULSViewer

From the Codeplex docs:

The ULSViewer tool performs various actions against the data from ULS log files in order to better analyze it. ULSViewer allows the user to:

• Highlight data of importance to the user on the fly
• Bookmark log entries
• Append logs to other logs in order to track trends
• Hide unimportant data
• Only view critical log entries by sorting data by severity
• Write rules to prompt the user when certain events occur
• View your data in a spreadsheet instead of the text file ULS generates
• Monitor remote machines logs that are running ULS services   <—my favorite feature!
• Open multiple logs at the same time in order to compare log files.
• Open logs files from multiple machines at the same time.

Enjoy!