Re: XLF: Legacy Log Problems
Peter Murray-Rust (peter@ursus.demon.co.uk)
Thu, 09 Jul 1998 07:22:29
At 18:55 08/07/98 -0700, Don Park wrote:
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>Non-integrated views. When a server generates multiple log types (i.e.
>access, error, etc.), each log types are written out into separate files.
>This makes it difficult to analyze problems whose symtoms are spread out
>over multiple files. When there are more than one process involved (i.e.
>web server, application server, and database server), the task becomes
>practically impossible. It would be nice to 'merge' log information from
>multiple sources to get a view of the all the components working together.
It could be useful to indicate the variety of log file types. I assume that
HTPP logs will be the favorite. [Example: I spend my time grepping the VSMS
server logs to see what percentage of JUMBO2 downloads break - by using the
byte count. ] Are you anticipating the elementTypes will be as detailed as
<ByteCount> or more general like <Transaction>? [I assume the latter, with
additional means of qualification through attributes.]
P.
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