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Re: Additional logging questions

Date	2012-02-28 17:20 -0500
From	Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.java.programmer
Subject	Re: Additional logging questions
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On 2/28/2012 2:52 AM, Leif Roar Moldskred wrote:
> Arne Vajhøj<arne@vajhoej.dk>  wrote:
>
>> Warning and above may be ops relevant, but the lower levels and
>> that is typical the majority of log messages are for developers.
>
> That's one idea I miss in the Java logging idiom: that there are
> different types of logs that are kept for different purposes and that
> a log message might be relevant for only one or some of these log
> types.
>
> That the system can't create a temporary file because there's not
> enough available disk space is of vital importance in an operations
> log, but completely irrelevant to an audit-trail log and of lesser
> importance to an error-tracking / debugging support log.
>
> While it's trivial to implement logging to do this, as the idea hasn't
> taken hold in the Java culture it's hardly ever done, which is a pity.

I think the split out of ops relevant data is typical done via the
ops monitoring software (IBM Tivoli, CA Unicenter or whatever).

Arne

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Additional logging questions Novice <novice@example..com> - 2012-02-27 02:02 +0000
  Re: Additional logging questions Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-02-26 21:08 -0500
    Re: Additional logging questions Novice <novice@example..com> - 2012-02-27 04:12 +0000
      Re: Additional logging questions Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2012-02-26 22:13 -0800
        Re: Additional logging questions Novice <novice@example..com> - 2012-02-27 19:14 +0000
          Re: Additional logging questions Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2012-02-27 12:32 -0800
          Re: Additional logging questions Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2012-02-27 13:06 -0800
            Re: Additional logging questions Novice <novice@example..com> - 2012-02-28 01:48 +0000
              Re: Additional logging questions Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-02-27 20:57 -0500
                Re: Additional logging questions Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2012-02-27 23:51 -0800
          Re: Additional logging questions Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-02-27 20:50 -0500
            Re: Additional logging questions Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2012-02-27 23:57 -0800
        Re: Additional logging questions Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-02-27 20:45 -0500
          Re: Additional logging questions Leif Roar Moldskred <leifm@dimnakorr.com> - 2012-02-28 01:52 -0600
            Re: Additional logging questions Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-02-28 17:20 -0500
            Re: Additional logging questions Arved Sandstrom <asandstrom3minus1@eastlink.ca> - 2012-02-28 20:26 -0400
      Re: Additional logging questions Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-02-27 20:34 -0500
  Re: Additional logging questions Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net> - 2012-02-27 12:36 -0800
    Re: Additional logging questions Novice <novice@example..com> - 2012-02-28 01:43 +0000

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