[wildfly-dev] Reading Logs from Web Console

[James R. Perkins]

Ha, yes it's been a couple of years now :) I'm enjoying Red Hat a lot 
and I hope you are too.

Thanks. I'll see what Google turns up with that. Maybe we could at least 
get some ideas from it.


On 08/14/2013 11:51 AM, Rob Cernich wrote:
>> The problem with filtering comes in parsing the log file. While I have
>> had some success doing this with I tool I was playing with for Jesper,
>> once you get a stack trace you have to start making guesses. I tend to
>> agree with dmlloyd in that log files tend to be a one way write. You can
>> do some parsing with a best guess, but well we all know what happens
>> when we start assuming and guessing :)
>>
>> That said I do like the challenge of trying to parse log files. I did
>> start a project to do it in my spare time I just haven't found time to
>> put into working on it lately.
>>
> Hey James, long time since orientation...
>
> Eclipse used to have a project called TPTP which did some of this.  It was architected with a "collector" that received events from various "agents" associated with servers running in your system.  I believe the events were typed as Common Base Events which included fields to help correlate events across multiple servers.  I don't recall whether or not the source for the server components (collector and agent) was open sourced or not (the binaries were available from Eclipse).  The Eclipse side provided tooling for viewing and analyzing these CBE messages, which included the capability for creating rules that could be used to diagnose common problems when applied across a set of events.
>
> Hope you've been enjoying your time at Red Hat!
>
> Rob

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