QTail

QTail is a homemade tool for monitoring log files with some powerful features.

License

You are free to use this tool as you like, but I take no responsibility for how you use it, any damage caused, or any other issues that may arise from its use.

This project is built with C++20 using Qt Community and QCoro.

For any licensing details, terms of use, or obligations, please refer to the respective websites of these projects.

Objective

This tool aims to be blazing fast while consuming minimal resources to:

• Load log files as quickly as possible;
• Continuously monitor the file and append new lines to the view;
• Highlight control characters, similar to VSCode;
• Identify FIX protocol strings in the selected log line and display a human-readable table with tag names and field descriptions when available.

The tool uses the public FIX dictionary released by B3 as the source of information. However, you can replace it with your own dictionary by updating the FIX44.xml file in the assets directory.

Want to contribute?

Awesome! This project started as a personal tool, but if you find it useful, feel free to contribute. You can request new features or report bugs in the issues section, or even better — submit a pull request 😀!