ULS Log File Data Mining

jimmiet — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 20:47:00 GMT

ULS Log File Data Mining

Finding meaningful information in SharePoint ULS logs is frustrating. It can be like finding a needle in a hay stack.

Assume you want to find all the Exceptions thrown in the last 72 hours. You go to the LOGS folder (but due to some categories set to verbose logging, coupled with a recurring error) to discover there are 6 GB of log files. Many of the individual log files are so large you cannot open them with Excel or Notepad. What do you do now?

Fortunately, there is a tool available that makes it possible to data mine ULS logs. This tool was originally developed to data mine IIS log files. Over the years it has been enhanced and extended to data mine other log file formats; such as, system event logs, comma separate text files, Network Monitor logs, the registry, even the file system! It is indeed the Swiss Army knife of log file data mining. It is named Log Parser, now in version 2.2. LogParser can slice-and-dice log files in a multitude of ways. It can output the results to text files, SQL Server tables, or charts. It is indeed, a great way to analyze ULS logs! (view entire article ...)

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ULS Log File Data Mining

ULS Log File Data Mining