KBEC-00173 - Default locations and use scenarios for Flow log files

Description

The health and status of your ElectricFlow installation is recorded in log files that often remain hidden in the Flow (Commander) directory structure. This article provides a reference for locations and characteristics of these log files. The where/how/why/what for log files.

Default Installation Directories

You can change the installation directories if you need to do so.

1. Default for Windows program files:

   C:\Program Files\Electric Cloud\ElectricCommander

2. Defaults for Windows data (database, logs, configuration files):
   1. for Windows XP, 2003

      C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Electric Cloud\ElectricCommander

   2. for Windows Vista, 2008, Windows 7

      C:\ProgramData\Electric Cloud\ElectricCommander

3. UNIX/Mac:

   /opt/electriccloud/electriccommander

Complete Description with Notes

Format of the contents of the log files

The Commander server log format is:

Timestamp                                            %-23date{yyyy-MM-dd 'T' HH:mm:ss.SSS}
Log level  (TRACE,DEBUG,INFO,WARN,ERROR,FATAL)     | %-5level
The name of the thread                             | %-20.20thread
The unique operation context id                    | %7.7mdc{context}
The related job id, if any                         | %7.7mdc{job}
Stack of operation names                           |-45>.45mdc{NDC}
The class doing the logging                        | %-30.30logger{ 0 }
The contents of the message                        | %message%n

Example

2011-07-19T08:31:13.332| INFO  | stateMachine-008     | 5376481| 1569841| completeStep#5408324                           | TransactionRetryAspect         | Success after 1 retry, delayed for 31ms

The Flow Agent log (agent.log) format is:

timestamp        %-23date{yyyy-MM-dd 'T' HH:mm:ss.SSS} 
log-level      | 
thread-id      | 
message

Example

The Flow Agent java log (jagent.log) format is:

timestamp        %-23date{yyyy-MM-dd 'T' HH:mm:ss.SSS} 
log-level      |
thread-id      | 
?      | 
?      | 
?      | 
?      | 
?      | 
message

Example

The apache Web Server access log format is:

LogFormat "%h %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %b %D %X %{hextid}P" common

1. %h Remote host
2. %l Remote logname (from identd, if supplied). This will return a dash unless IdentityCheck is set On.
3. %u Remote user (from auth; may be bogus if return status (%s) is 401)
4. %t Time the request was received (standard English format)
5. %r First line of request
6. %s Status
7. %b bytes
8. %D The time taken to serve the request, in microseconds.
9. %X keepalive status, "X" = connection aborted, "+" = connection may be kept alive, "-" = connection will be closed
10. %P = thread id

Example