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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Simple, encapsulated C++ logger that can deal with fork/exec situations
Motivation: for whatever reason, some of the available 3rd party logging libraries don't really deal with programs that get fork'ed/exectuted well. For instance, ...
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General application log
In my Node.js applications, I often find it helpful to have an application log so that should something go wrong in production, I can have more information than I get from a crash stack trace to track ...
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Someone thinks poorly of my server log parser
I have just been informed that the following code written by me is extremely poor. I have absolutely no idea why. It is memory efficient, and looks clean to me. But still the feedback is very poor. I ...
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Use of Exception to log execution stack trace
I've been back and forth with a colleague over the use of Throwable.fillInStackTrace. This Log class is meant to wrap the Simple ...
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Logger class for MVC Framework
I have created a logger class for my own framework. Now I am trying to identify the components which can be done in a better way. The logger class doesn't log anything inside a file but it logs the ...
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Parsing log files in Haskell
I am working through the online materials for CIS 194, a upenn haskell class (not taking the class). This exercise is to parse an error log, and it gives a few function signatures to implement, ending ...
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Logger facade code for configuring multiple loggers are runtime
Following is the code for a logger facade that I have created, which can be used to log via any of the standard and configurable loggers like log4net, BitFactory, currently I have just integrated ...
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Text parsing and calculator (calculate Java heap memory)
I'm writing small tool, which must execute jmap -heap, write output to log, then takes some data from log and calculate used memory.
I added some ...
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LogManager Tests
I should have started with this code. I wrote my logging API without writing unit tests, and since I recently wrote an automagic unit testing API I though I might as well go ahead and use it.
So I ...
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Extensible logging - DatabaseLogger
Recently I wrote a logging API that features an ILogger interface. I wanted to extend my library with a DatabaseLogger ...
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Extensible logging
Whenever I need logging functionality in .net, I use a logging framework, such as NLog. Obviously there's no logging framework for vba, at least none that I know of.
As much as I love using NLog, the ...
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Policy-based, variadic logger class in C++
I've been exploring design based around some of the more advanced C++11 features lately, and some of them are turning out to be rather useful for some projects I'm working on. One is this ...
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LogParser function: kill application and send email
I've created a new tool, which parses a specified log file, and if an Oracle exception is there, it kills Tomcat and sends an email notification.
I tried to take into account comments from my ...
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TaggedLogger - Log wrapper
I wrote this class in order to not having to write tag every time (because of code duplication and risk of typos).
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How to better indent multiline strings with many string formatting args?
I have a function, that is used in flask, for logging application errors:
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Avoiding code duplication in multiple except blocks in Logger class
Context:
A logger records events which contain an area, a level, a message and an option indicating that the source replaces another one.
The logger attempts to send the message through HTTP, and on ...
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Deferred log file close
My code works in that it compiles, and when executed writes out a log file using a buffered writer.
But I wonder whether:
I am correct in assuming that this actually winds up deferring a ...
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Proper way to log progress and resume in Python
I often have a need to log my progress when doing a repetitive task. Logging allows me to continue where I left off if execution is halted (for example, perhaps my VPS server was rebooted by my ...
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Apply Good Patterns about Logging in Executor Process
I have source code for execute a command (ProcessStart) using Impersonate, and I want apply best practices and good design pattern, and good performance if ...
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Logging strategy setup
I finally set up my logging infrastructure to work as desired, however I feel like I had to do quite a lot things just to fulfill a few requirements. Now I'm worried if my approach has major ...
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Logger module with JavaScript
I'm new to JavaScript, and in Java I probably would do this as a singleton. I need something that I can call from anywhere and instantiate only once.
This is what I have done, but I need some advice ...
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User-logging authentication
I'm little frustrated because I don't know how well I can refactor this script. I wrote the authentication function but it's too complicated, maybe too large in one function, and seems like spaghetti ...
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Is there a better version for verbosing the output of the euclidean method?
Here is my implementation of the Euclidean Algorithm. My question is how to make it more "professional". It's working right, but isn't this too newbie?
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Multithreaded file downloader using threading and signals
This is my first attempt to write a multithreaded application that downloads files from internet. I am looking for improvement in code, logic and better strategy for implementation.
Please ignore the ...
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Apache log4j in play framework
I have converted this code from Java to Scala, and I need reviews. This works fine, but I am sure that something is wrong with this coding pattern.
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Parsing a website
Following is the code I wrote to download the information of different items in a page.
I have one main website which has links to different items. I parse this main page to get the list. This is ...
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Async Log4net logging handler - High CPU usage on async call
I've got a LoggingMessageHandler that incoming requests on my WebApi application filter through.
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Creating a better NSLog
So, generally when I write iOS code, I will start with a lot of calls to NSLog, which is a macro that with print the string you send it to the console.
There's a ...
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Pretty way of keeping sensitive info out of a logged command string in Ruby?
I have a long command that I am building with shovels (<<), with the intention of eventually running system(command). I'd ...
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Windows keylogger in C
I have had this keylogger code for a while now (a few years*), and I figured I would put it up for review. Here is what I would like reviewed (in order):
Portability - right now, this program can ...
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C++11 Logging Architecture
To create a Logging system for a larger application, I came up with the following draft. The log sinks aren't detailed yet, but the factory method for logger creation and a rough draft of the logger ...
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How in-depth should the logging be?
This question is more-or-less code agnostic. Provided code analysis would be helpful though.
Background: I've never got along with logging too well - probably because I've never had a need to review ...
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StoredErrorWriter
Functionality that overwrite standard error message with trace to user friendly message with error number stored in DB.
Not yet completed some stuff with trx...
Please review this.
DB table:
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Logging without Code Bloat
I was wondering if any of you know any best practices or design patterns so that I can have good logging in my programs without them looking messy or bloated.
I am currently using C# and NLog, ...
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Loop filling a set with logging
After watching Raymond Hettingers talk Transforming Code into Beautiful, Idiomatic Python I got back to a function I wrote.
I'm not quite sure how to make it more pythonic but I think this might be a ...
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Any recommendations to improve this logging framework? Or is it overkill?
So I've been kind of irritated with my logging recently as I find myself copying and pasting the same kinds of generic messages around to lots of different methods or retyping them ever so slightly ...
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Is it feasible to create a syslog server which writes to a client dataset?
I'm creating a simple syslog server in Delphi XE2 using Indy's TIdSyslogServer. I've decided to make it dump into a ...
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log4j 1.2 - own check for verbose logs?
In my code's package, I have a flag such as:
public static final boolean LOGS_VERBOSE = false;
And in worker classes (multi threaded ...
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Simplest WP7 logger
Just ended up with this approach for wp7 (no tag yet), in case someone would find it useful. Also, improvement considerations are welcome.
It works with
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Review Simple Logparser
This is my first try with Python. I wanted to parse some Log4J so I thought it a good opportunity to write my first Python program.
The format of the logs I deal ...
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Bash log monitoring optimization
I've made a Bash script to monitor some server log files for certain data and my method probably isn't the most efficient.
One section specifically bugs me is that I have to write a newline to the ...
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More Elegant Solution to Logging Class
I got this class in C# which works fine. But I was wondering if there was a more elegant solution to what I am trying to do. It looks rather clumsy and inefficient for a Logging functionality.
The ...
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Encapsulating logging and throwing exceptions into a method. Bad practice?
original code example
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Wrapping an Exception with context-management, using the with statement
Before I try to make this work, I wondered if anyone had tried this, whether it was a good idea or not, etc.
I find myself doing this a lot:
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Running over a log file to extract log times
I need to run over a log file with plenty of entries (25+GB) in Python to extract some log times.
The snippet below works. On my test file, I'm ending up with roughly ...
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Little log engine in C
I programmed a little log engine in C I plan to use in my project and maybe some others in future. I am very novice C programmer and would like to have feedback of some experienced ones on this. It's ...
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localStorage functions for website shopping cart
As part of a larger web app we are producing, I was asked to help build functionality to tie a page's shopping cart into localStorage for persistence. What follows ...
