Computer data logging is the process of recording events in a computer program, usually with a certain scope, in order to provide an audit trail that can be used to understand the activity of the system and to diagnose problems.

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An extensible logging architecture for Android?

The end goal is to have a variety of data sets that can all be graphically plotted against eachother. All data should correspond to a date, so that when plotted against each other, they show the ...
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How to design a log() method that can easily be accessed from the outside of the Console class?

Recently my team has programmed a custom developer console in a video game which can easily be hidden or displayed, because it's more comfortable and less of a hassle. The Console class contains a ...
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When is it okay to log filename/line information for errors?

We have a closed-source commercial C++ application. Some of our logged error messages are in plain English like "ERROR: could not read file 'foo'". While others use a macro to print filename/line ...
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Is SQLite a sensible option for data logging?

I am trying to setup a small data-logging application under linux. The data arrives via serial port, and from there it should be pumped to logging and to graphical display. The logging functionality ...
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How to do logging in console application [closed]

I have a simple console application that will be deployed as a scheduled job. Below is its pseudo code Main(string[] args) { //get xml string from database Reports reports = ...
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Maintaining log stream after file name change

I'm trying to log to a file and move it about every 30 seconds. I'm using the os.rename function (which I do from a supervisord process) in python to move the current log to a timestamped log (which ...
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What is the best way to track / record the current programming project you work on? [duplicate]

I have been in this problem for long time and I want to know how it's done in real / big companies project? Suppose I have the project to build a website. Now I divide the project into sub tasks and ...
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Is there any reason not to include issue numbers in debug logs?

I was going through the answers to this question: What information must never appear in logs? And noticed that nobody mentioned this particular attribute. It's something I find useful- whenever any ...
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Good logging technique for small projects on Java [duplicate]

When I'm coding small projects, I often use System.out.println to print valuable info. It's simple, easy and gets me info. The only drawback I found is that there is no simple way to disable parts of ...
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Event based logging. Is it a good idea and is it ok to pass a handle to a “logged” object?

Hi I have fairly complex program that is doing computations in a quite large loop. I want to log some basic statistic about the run to be able to analyze its performance over time and vs loop number. ...
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Categorizing log events (logging and set theory) [closed]

It occurs to me that log events are a natural fit for set theory. Log events naturally divide into groups, and a lot of events fall into more than one. Most of my experience is with java logging ...
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Forcing logger/appender to output line logged at lower than its current level?

Consider the following scenario: I am writing a Dispatcher Servlet that delegates processing to various handlers depending on the request URL; the handler objects having previously registered ...
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log4cxx: is it a stable option to include as part of distributed library? [closed]

We are porting our Java API library to C++. (Our target platforms are Linux and Windows.) Since we have minimal C++ experience, the learning curve has been pretty steep, but overall we have been able ...
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C++ log every function and parameter values

I want to log every function call and parameter value in my C++ app. Is there a generic approach for this task ? (3rd part library, VAR_ARGS etc.)
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Design pattern for logging changes in parent/child objects saved to database

I’ve got a 2 database tables in parent/child relationship as one-many. I’ve got three classes representing the data in these two tables: Parent Class { Public int ID {get; set;} .. other ...

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