We're happy to announce that LogFusion 5.0 Beta 1 is now available for download! This release features a new UI, Log Categories, customizable HotKeys, memory usage improvements, and many other enhancements and bug fixes!

LogFusion 5.0 Beta 1 Highlights

• New and improved UI
• Added a new feature - Log Categories! Set default columns and highlights for different logs. Replaces and enhances Watched Folders.
• Memory usage improvements
• Filter History
• Windows Context Menu integration
• HTML log exporting
• Many other stability, performance, and bug fixes

Log Categories

Log Categories are a new feature added in this release that will replace Watched Folders. LogFusion 5.0 Beta 1 will automatically import your existing Watched Folders and convert them to Log Categories. You can now set up Log Categories to match different kinds of logs. When a log is loaded into LogFusion and it matches one of your categories, default settings such as highlights and columns will automatically be added to the log! If you do notice any issues with the imported Watched Folders, please let us know. The installer and auto-updater automatically backup your settings, so if anything bad happens to your Watched Folders, you can roll back to 4.3 and restore your settings from before the update.

The Log Categories feature adds a bunch of new functionality for automating your workflow:

• Choose default settings for different log types: File, Watched Folder, Event Log/Channel, and Debug Log
• Default columns for logs from watched folders and files
• Default highlight settings for all logs

Updating LogFusion

We encourage everyone to update to the new version today.

LogFusion Screenshots

Log Category Edit Window

Filter History

We're happy to announce that LogFusion 4.3 is now available for download! This release features better integration with system settings, and many other improvements and bug fixes!

LogFusion 4.3 Highlights

• Now targeting the .NET Framework 4.0, which will automatically install during setup if needed
• LogFusion now uses the system setting for list separators when adding CSV columns
• LogFusion now uses the system setting for mouse scroll lines
• Many other stability, performance, and bug fixes

Updating LogFusion

We encourage everyone to update to the new version today.

LogFusion Screenshots

LogFusion Main Window

Please note: If you're deploying LogFusion via Active Directoy GPO, please read the MSI Installation section carefully, and as always, make sure to test it thoroughly before deploying it into production.

Note: The LogFusion installer requires administrative privileges in order to run successfully. If the installer is run using an account that doesn't have administrative privileges on the system, UAC will request the credentials for an administrative account on the system.

EXE Installation

The following parameters are especially useful for deployments.

MSI Installation

The following MSI properties are especially useful for deployments. Any of the properties below can be included in an MST (transform) file if deploying via Group Policy. If you create your own MST file, you must include the CUSTOM1="/VERYSILENT", and LAUNCHAFTER=0 properties for deploying the MSI through Group Policy Software Installation.

General Requirements for Remote Event Logs

If LogFusion fails to connect to a remote server's event logs, make sure to check the following:

• Make sure Remote Management is allowed through the Windows Firewall on the remote server.
• Make sure the Remote Registry service is started on the remote server.
• Make sure you're specifying the credentials of an account that have permissions to open the Event Logs on the remote server. Note: LogFusion uses WMI to connect to the remote server. If the remote server is not on a domain, and UAC is enabled on the remote server, the WMI call will fail. For remote servers that are on a domain and have UAC enabled, make sure the credentials you specify in LogFusion are for a domain user that is a member of the local Administrators group on the remote server. More information on this restriction can be found in the "Handling Remote Connections Under UAC" section of the following MSDN article: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa826699(v=vs.85).aspx

Note: If you're connecting to a Windows 8 machine, you'll need to do some additional configuration on the Windows 8 machine.

Extra Requirements for Windows 8

If you're connecting to a remote Windows 8 machine to view the Windows Event Logs or Event Channels, you'll need to perform some additional configuration steps on the remote Windows 8 machine.

• Make sure you've already verified the settings in "General Requirements for Remote Event Logs" section above
• Add the user account that you're connecting with to the "Administrators" and "Event Log Viewers" security groups
• Open the Component Services MMC snap-in (Start > Run > dcomcnfg)
• Expand "Component Services" > "Computers," then right-click "My Computer" and choose "Properties"
• On the COM Security tab, click the "Edit Limits" button in the "Launch and Activation Permissions" section
• Click the "Add" button, type in "Authenticated Users" and click OK
• Make sure "Authenticated Users" is selected in the list, then enable the "Remote Activation" checkbox and click OK, then OK again
• Open the WMI Control MMC snap-in (Start > Run > wmimgmt.msc)
• Right-click "WMI Control (Local)" and choose "Properties"
• Expand "Root," then select "CIMV2" and click the "Security" button
• Make sure "Authenticated Users" is selected in the list, then enable the "Remote Enable" checkbox and click OK, then OK again
• When entering the credentials in the LogFusion connection dialog, make sure to put the remote Windows 8 machine's computer name in the "Domain" box

We're pleased to announce that LogFusion 4.2 is now available for download! This version includes a few new features and a bunch of bugfixes:

• You can now assign Highlight Rules to Watched Folders
• Added support for per-monitor DPI scaling in Windows 10
• You can now sort by multiple columns (hold Shift when clicking the column headers)
• Added an option to disable the position line in the scroll bar
• Added an option to keep the current selected line when using Page Up/Page Down
• LogFusion will now prompt to automatically setup columns for W3C logs
• Event log previews (double-clicking) now show correct fields
• Resolved an issue where the log would scroll automatically after it reached the max loaded lines
• Various other bug fixes and improvements

Updating LogFusion

We encourage everyone to update to this new version today to take advantage of these improvements. If you've already purchased LogFusion, it's a lifetime license, so you can upgrade to this version at no cost! If you would like to see a complete list of all the changes, please visit the LogFusion Change Log.

LogFusion Screenshots

Adding Highlight Rules to Watched Folders

Auto-detecting W3C Logs

We're pleased to announce that LogFusion 4.1 is now available for download! This version fixes a bunch of issues from the 4.0 release:

• Fixed an issue with the "Debug Output" source
• Fixed the option for disabling scroll bar highlighting
• Disabled column sorting by default (too slow with big logs) and added an option for it in the settings
• Fixed the Ctrl + Shift + C hotkey
• Fixed an issue where tabs weren't displayed properly
• Fixed an issue that caused logs to look like they were being updated when they weren't

Updating LogFusion

We encourage everyone to update to this new version today to take advantage of these improvements. If you've already purchased LogFusion, it's a lifetime license, so you can upgrade to this version at no cost! If you would like to see a complete list of all the changes, please visit the LogFusion Change Log.

LogFusion Screenshots

Highlight Menu

System Event Log with Highlighting