Viewing Failed Request Log

Question

Probably since IE (Internet Explorer) is now (since a while...) officially dead, and I finally am in a situation where I do want to take a look at the Failed Request Logs.

Search did help me find:

1. IIS failed request log viewer

But this question, and answer, are from 11 years ago, and the link to the external site is down.

2. FREB Viewer

But the download gives: {"error":{"code":"generalException","message":"General Exception While Processing"}}

So, my question is, how can I view the Failed Request Logs, about the same way as i used to do that in Internet Explorer, a couple of years ago?

I am trying to do that under Windows 11, but when viewing a file like "C:\inetpub\logs\FailedReqLogFiles\W3SVC1\fr004256.xml", I am only seeing an empty page in Edge.

EDIT: Another article about it not working, see:

Reading a FREB log, a Failed Request Tracing: IIS request processing pipeline execution (last updated: Dec 15 2020 02:10 AM)

Answer 1

In Edge setting, set Allow sites to be reloaded in Internet Explorer mode to Allow and restart Edge.

Then open fr0000xx.xml file in edge. You may get a blank page and freb.xsl shows blocked.

Click ... on the top right corner and reload in IE mode.

Now, you can view it on Win11.