The new version of Chainsaw has some capabilities that could help.  

It's available at http://logging.apache.org/log4j/docs/chainsaw.html - install via the 
ant script available from the 'installation' section of the page.

Chainsaw provides a filtering expression syntax available for searching and building 
display or color filters - on anything in the event (including mdc/ndc) via a variety 
of operators and keywords.

An explanation of the expression filtering syntax is available from Chainsaw V2's 
tutorial (the tutorial is available via the menu or a button on the 'welcome' tab).

Hope this helps - if you have further questions feel free to ask.

Scott




-----Original Message-----
From:   Sikha, Naresh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent:   Fri 4/16/2004 2:31 PM
To:     '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
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Subject:        Correlating enterprise logs
Hello, LOG4J.
 
I'm attempting to correlate enterprise logs using LOG4J MDC/NDC. I've
reasoned that I need the following values in every message to correlate:
 
- Guaranteed unique session identifier (correlates many requests)
- Guaranteed unique request identifier (correlates many logs in a request)
- Guaranteed unique nested identifier (correlates many logs within a request
that make up a context such as an EJB call or Web Service call)
 
This all seems fine and well until I actually began to correlate - I
couldn't find any easy way to make the correlation happen.
 
So I would like to pose the following questions:
 
- Are there graphical tools that show the flow of logging events? Across
JVMs? Across multiple web requests?
- What are the best practices for generating "correlation friendly" logging
events?
- Is there a means in LOG4J to guarantee uniqueness of logging events across
JVMs?
 
Thanks!
 

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