Finding records
The Find Log Record dialog box provides a means to search for log records in the Log Interaction and Log Thread Interaction views.
- To search for log records, click the Find icon
in the toolbar.
The Find Log Record window opens. Hint: Use Ctrl-F for a short cut key.
- Specify the log records that you want to search for in the Search table. To create a new filter or edit an existing filter, click
Add or Edit. The Add Filter Property dialog box opens.

- In the Attribute field, select the attribute that you are searching for.
- In the Operator field, select the boolean operator for the search.
- In the Value field, type the value that you are searching for. You can use * to match any set of characters, including an
empty string.
- Click OK. The search parameters appear in the Search filter table.
- Click Remove to remove a search filter.
- Select Backward to search backward (bottom to top) starting from the currently selected log record in the Log view.
- Select Forward to search forward (top to bottom) starting from the currently selected log record in Log view.
- Click Find Next to start a search starting from the currently selected log record in the Log view based on direction selected.
If no record is selected in log interactions view, search will start from the first record in the view.
If the entered search pattern is found, the log interactions view selection moves to either the next or previous occurrence of the search log record,
according to your chosen search direction, and locates the found log record according to your selections in the log interactions view.
Repeat this step to find multiple occurrences of the pattern-matching log record in your log files.
Related concepts
Determining problems in distributed
applications using the Log and Trace Analyzer
Related tasks
Working with log files
Analyzing a log file
Setting logging preferences
Correlating log files
Related reference
Log view
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