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[ I appologize for not posting this message last night but I literally fell off my chair and into sleep after posting the Status message. If you are a workaholic who works til you drop, learn Judo or avoid hardwood floors. <g>] Let us kick off the first round of discussion by enumerating the problems of legacy log formats. Please share with the rest of us what you like and/or hate about log formats you worked with. WHAT I LIKE: Logs in ASCII because they are viewable without special tools and because they can be written out fast. WHAT I HATE: Single level of details. I open a web server log and you see zillions of similar looking entries all with same kind of information. If something wrong happens to a web server, I would like to see more detailed error information when and where it happens in the access log. Custom parsers. Most log formats are simple in structure yet wild in variety so that custom parsers have to be written for each type of logs your server generate. 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. Let me just stop here so that rest of you have something to write about <g>. Regards, Don Park xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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