Questions & Answer

Yes! You can open files with the protocols http(s), ftp(s) and scp.

Go to File -> Open from URL and type in the URL of the file to load. You can enter your credentials here if required.

Supported protocols are (S)FTP, SCP and HTTP(S).

Yes — you have to set up an entry in “Settings -> Preferences -> Stored account” settings.

Add the first part of the URL and your credentials. If a matching entry is available (URL starts with the stored part) the credentials are loaded automatically.

The credentials are stored as encrypted strings (not readable).

Yes — if the files are written with appropriate share flags (share read) you can.

If you are not able to view a running log it might be written with “share none”.

There are 2 options for content filtering:

The more simple is the “Quickfilter” which can be applied after a selecting an expression. The Quickfilter supports only plain text as expression and can be applied as “Pass-Filter” or as “Stop-Filter” (have a look into the context menu while a quick-selection is active).
Several “Stop-Filters” can be applied after each other. With that it is possible to remove unwanted lines step by step.

More complex filters supporting wild cards or regular expressions can be defined in predefined reusable filters (see menu “Edit – Filter content” or filter the toolbar icon ).
In the following dialog you can define several expressions for more complex and reusable content filters.

Yes and no. Breaking lines “inline” in the standard view is not supported – it has too many impacts on scroll behavior, line count calculation etc…

But there are 2 ways to see also long lines completely:

1. The current line is displayed in the “Line content” view (one of the output windows).
2. You can enable a “full line popup” window in the view’s local toolbar. If that is activated a popup window will be displayed by moving the mouse to the “non-content” area (line number etc.) of a line.

No, but [loxx] is heavily inspired by Baretail. We loved Baretail, but unfortunate the development stalled and was discontinued. As we weren’t able to find a decent alternative, [loxx] was born.

[loxx] can open really large files. There is no limit for the file size.
Only a small part file of the and an index table is loaded to memory.
For a file with 100 GB the memory usage is typically around 15 MB.

Delta times can be displayed only if the time stamps in the file are matching one of the predefined patterns (Settings -> Preferences -> Date/time patterns).

You have to create a new pattern matching the date / time format in your file.