XpoLog help - Logs View
 
Logs View is XpoLog's data browsing tool. You can access it by clicking a log entry in the tree or by clicking the 'Logs View' entry in the 'Main' top menu.
The logs view can accommodate up to 10 different logs, each shown in a separate tab.
The name of each log is displayed in the tab. Locating the mouse over the name of a log will display the tree-path of the log.
 

Log Viewing

The log view screen is divided into two main areas: a control panel located at the left and the data view area located in the center.
You can spread the data view area across the whole screen by clicking the icon located in the top left part of the data view area.

The data could be displayed in two ways:

  1. Tabular View - this is the default view. It displays the data in a tabular model, each record in a table row.

  2. List View - the data is shown as a list, each record is one item in the list.

You can switch between tabular view and list view by clicking the matching tab in the top right corner of the data view area.

You can sort the data by a specific column by clicking the on column's name. The first click will sort the data in descending order. Every additional click will
switch the sorting order.
You can turn the sorting off by clicking the icon on the left of the column name.

 
Log Browsing
The data view area contains a log browsing control panel for easy log browsing. The control panel contains the following controls:

- show the beginning of the log
- show the previous records
- show the next records
- show the end of the log

The control panel also contains a log records counter that controls the number of records that are displayed. This control can be used n two ways:

  1. Select the number of records to be displayed and click the previous or next records button - this will
    display the previous or next X records, X being the number of records you selected.

  2. Select the number of records to be displayed and click the icon (at the bottom part of the data view area) - this will
    display X records from the current position, X being the number of records you selected.

If you are viewing a log composed of files, you can browse to a data stored in a specific file of your log directly by switching
to 'File View' in the 'Find' section of the control panel located on the left and clicking the file's name.

The 'Tail' link, located in the bottom of the data view area, allows you to view online changing files without the need
to refresh the view. New records that are written to the log will be added to the end of the view
automatically (if a filter is active, only records that match the filter will be added).
The default settings of the tail are:

  1. Refresh Rate - 2 seconds.

  2. Records Accumulation - 500 (after 500 records are shown the page will be refreshed to show new records).

In the bottom of the data view are exists a progress bar that reports how many records were found so far in the parsing or filtering process.
You can use the 'Stop' button to stop the action in progress.

 

Log Filtering and Searching

Filters can be activated in two ways:

  1. Click a filter in the control panel located on the left, under the Filters section.

  2. Select a filter from the filters list in the data view area and click the Go button.

After a filter is activated, only records matching the filter criteria will be displayed in the data view area.

The filters' drop down menu, located under the arrow to the right of the 'Go' button in the top of the data view area, enables the following actions:

  1. Edit - edit the selected filter.

  2. New - create a new filter.

  3. Multi - create a new multi filter.

  4. Negate - create a negative filter of one or more existing filters.

  5. Duplicate - create a new filter based on the selected filter.

  6. Remove - delete the selected filter.

In case the data pattern of the log contains a field of type priority/choice, quick filters for all the priorities/choices will be added to the bottom of the drop down menu.

Note: you can quickly create filters in two ways:

  1. By typing in a term in the text box in the top of the data view area and clicking the 'Filter' button.

  2. By entering the filter criteria in the 'Find' section in the control panel located on the left and clicking the 'Find' button.

Searches can be performed by typing in a term in the text box in the top of the data view area and clicking the 'Find' button.
Matching terms will be highlighted.

 

When viewing the result of a filter or search, you can drill down into the log in order to view the records near a record that matched the filter or search.
Do this by clicking the icon in the left most column of the record you wish to drill down to (the record you selected will be highlighted in the drill down view).
You can go back to the filtered view by clicking the Back icon, located in the top left corner of the data view area.

 

Log Tools

When viewing a log file, the following tools could be accessed from the 'Tools' section of the control panel located on the left:

  1. Customize - change several settings of the log. Read more in Log Customization

  2. Export - export the log's data and configuration (optional). Read more in Export Log

  3. Print - print the current view of the log.

  4. Aggregation Report - create an aggregation report on the log.

In addition, you can use the search context menu to search term from the log in predefined repositories. Do this by right-clicking
a term in the log and choosing the repository to search in under the 'Search' entry. Read more in Log View Settings

 
Additional links
     Filter Definition