Hi Ashish,
It does have timestamp, log level, thread name etc. though we do not use the
level appropriately at some places.
Here is a sample log line:
2014-07-04 09:00:19,456 WARN [o.a.c.f.j.AsyncJobExecutionContext]
(StatsCollector-3:ctx-0090dd87) Job is executed without a context, setup psudo
job for the executing thread
We use log4j for logging with a conversion pattern of %d{ISO8601} %-5p [%c{1.}]
(%t:%x) %m%n
description about the pattern can be found here
https://logging.apache.org/log4j/1.2/apidocs/org/apache/log4j/PatternLayout.html
~Rajani
On 06-Jul-2014, at 11:53 am, Ashish Sureka
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
We [Professor and PhD Student in Software Engineering at a State University
in India] are working towards a source code analysis tool which can assist
practitioners in writing effecting log statements. There are more than
10000 log statements in CloudStack (s_logger.error, s_logger.warn,
s_logger.trace, s_logger.info……………….)
The focus of this email is on format and consistency of log statements. We
analyzed all the log statements and observe that the log statements prints
a message and variable(s). However it does not print the log level,
timestamp and thread-name. I believe you agree with me that - Information
like timestamp [Date date= new Date(); new Timestamp(date.getTime())] and
thread-name [Thread.currentThread().getName()] is useful for diagnosing
production failure and root-cause analysis. It is also useful in studying
patterns and trends. We have the following questions:
1) Why log-level, timestamp and thread-name is not logged.
2) How important (different people may have different opinion) is
Point 1 (mentioning log-level, timestamp and thread-name)
3) Is there a standard guideline for developers for writing log
statements – which CloudStack developers need to follow
4) Do you use any log-analysis tool? How are logs analyzed (visual
inspection, home-grown tool/program, external open-source/commercial tool)?
5) CloudStack can be used in a multi-threaded environment and I am not
clear why the thread name is not printed
Thanks in advance and appreciate it. We want to build a tool (not just
about format and consistency) that will be practically useful to
practitioners and will make it open-source & publicly available. This is
part of an academic/research study and hence request a response to all
questions.
Thanks and Regards,
Ashish and Sangeeta
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http://ashish-sureka-delhi.blogspot.in/ ]
