What java method to write/use to track errors in jboss 7 serve.log

[explorepar]

Hi Guys,

I have a requirement from the customer were they want to track the errors in server.log of jboss 7.x version. They dont want to use log parsing  method.

The customer would like to interpret the entries in server.log and if there are exceptions which might affect application performance wants to track that.

[jamezp]

What is the question?

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James R. Perkins

[explorepar]

How to Monitor Server log for exceptions. I have a java based monitoring tool want to write a method/program to track exceptions in server.log in jboss 7 in domain mode ?

/apps01/jboss-eap-6.0/domain/servers/S-Utility/log/server.log

Thx,

P

[jamezp]

It just depends on the format the log is written in. By default it's just a standard unformatted text file so you'd have to parse it out which doesn't always work well. You're best option would be to use a custom-formatter, but that wasn't introduced until EAP 6.3. Other than that you have to make an attempt to parse text.

One thing to make it slightly better would be to use some kind of delimiters for beginning/end of a log message. You could change the formatter on the handler to a format which adds maybe a character character string around exceptions. It's less than a perfect approach though.

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James R. Perkins

[explorepar]

Thanks James. Appreciate your suggestion. I will wait for a day or two to see if there are any other inputs. Before I inform the development team on the option  you have mentioned.

Regards,

P

[wdfink]

You might add an additional appender to have only ERROR or FATAL messages.

Also you can use a mail-appender to send out e-mails.

Or create your own appender to customize the behaviour