Proactively monitoring SPS 2010 and MOSS

I was recently introduced to what is now a critical tool. The ULS Viewer http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/ULSViewer



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


• Open multiple logs at the same time in order to compare log files.


• Open logs files from multiple machines at the same time.