Customizing Log view
To customize the Log view, select Windows > Preferences >. The Preferences
dialog box opens. Select Profiling and Logging > Log View. The Log view preferences pane
opens up.

You can customize the Log view by setting the timestamp, selecting sort
parameters, and selecting what to display.
- Select Window > Preferences > Profiling and Logging > Log
View.
- Select the Timestamp Format tab.
- Select the date and time format. Click Apply.
- To close the Preferences window, click OK.
- Select Window > Preferences > Profiling and Logging > Log
View.
- Select the Sort Records tab. See the list of properties (fields) of log records
that are currently available and are being used to sort logs.
- Select the properties by which you want records sorted and move them to
the Selected Properties area using the arrow controls.
Notes:
- The order in which the selected record fields appear is used as the
criteria to sort the records.
- By default, no sorting is done on the log records. They appear in
random order.
- The double arrow controls move all the properties
between areas.
- To reorder the selected properties, click Up or Down. The
new Sort by criterion is displayed as
you do this.
- Click Apply. The changes are applied
- To close the Preferences window, click OK.
To see the resorted list, click the Refresh Views button
from the Profiling Monitor view.
- Select Window > Preferences > Profiling and Logging > Log
View.
- Select the Filter Properties tab. See the list of properties (fields) of log
records that are currently available and visible in
the Log view.
- Deselect a field to filter it out from the Log view.
- To reorder the properties, click Up or Down.
- To filter out properties by severity level, deselect: Error, Warning,
or Information.
For example, to display only records for which the severity of the problem is
error, clear the check boxes for Warning and Information so
that only the Error check box is selected.
- Click Apply. The changes are applied
- To close the Preferences window, click OK.
Related concepts
Determining problems in distributed
applications using the Log and Trace Analyzer
Overview of the Profiling Tool
Related tasks
Synchronizing time
Setting preferences for Log and Trace Analyzer
Time
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