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+Pega-LogViewer
+==============
+Pega-LogViewer is a Java Swing based tool to view PegaRULES Log and Alert files.
+
+Extract 'logviewer-2.0-bin.zip' to a folder.
+Run 'logviewer.cmd' to launch the tool.
+
+Features
+----------
+This tool show the log file line/entries in a table format. The columns are marked based on the log pattern.
+The log pattern used are the ootb ones from prlogging.xml -> PEGA appender.
+Some customers updates PEGA appender pattern.
+In case the tool can't recognize the pattern automatically, it will present a dialog to enter the pattern,
+so you might be required to get pattern from prlogging.xml or judge the pattern by looking at the logs lines itself.
+ 
+For PegaRULES log the row entries are color coded based on log level, Red for Error, Green for Info, Light Blue for Debug etc.
+For ALERT log, only Critical Alerts entries are coded Red.
+ 
+The timeline graph is governed by the data in the table. in case you filter the data in the table using any of the column filter, the chart will change.
+
+You can open very huge log files. In case of OOM, just change the heap size in the cmd file and try again. 
+Features
+	a. See memory, requestor counts in a chart. also system starts, exceptions and thread dump occurences are superimposed on the timeline.
+	b. Search within the file output for useful content. results are highlighted in yellow
+	d. Set Filters for certain log and alert data columns.
+	e. Overview dialog to show (if any)- 
+		1. System Start details
+		2. Errors
+		3. Thread Dumps
+