Back Forward Working with the My Alerts display

Select Tools > My Alerts to view lines from the current Alert log on the server node produced by your own requestor session. (You can access the same display from the My Alerts link of the Performance tool summary display.)

My Alerts notification

During your requestor session, a pop-up message appears briefly when an alert is triggered.

Each alert in the STANDARD Thread increments a counter (My alert notification counter) located on the left side of the portal title bar. The counter does not appear until the first alert. Alerts in the DEVELOPER Thread or other Threads are not included in this count, as they are unlikely to occur for users of the application you are building, and so are not relevant to your application's runtime performance.

Click the counter to open the list of alerts described below. When you log off and back on again, the counter resets to "0" and no counter displays.

To turn off the pop-up feature, select Edit > Preferences > View and clear the My Alerts Popup check box.

NoteThis display is limited to the current Alert log; alerts in older logs are not visible. Depending on your log file systems settings, a new log may start each time a node is started, at specific time each day, or on another basis.

Working with the initial display

Field

Description

Collapsed

The alerts are ordered by date and time; the first row is the most current. Click to see Collapsedthe details of one row. Click Collapsedto hide details. For an explanation of the most useful details, see Understanding Alerts. For detailed information about every field reported by each alert type, consult the PDNAlert Log 5.4, a PDF document available on the Pega Developer Network.

Date and Time

Date and time of the alert, converted from GMT to the time zone of the server.

Alert Type

A text description of the alert type. For example, the text BrowserInteraction corresponds to alert type PEGA0001, interaction times. Other types are Database (PEGA002 to PEGA007) .

Value

The measured value of the Key Performance Indicator, recorded in seconds, as a count, or in bytes.

Interaction

The sequence number of the browser-to-server interaction since the requestor session began, as indicated by the Performance tool display.

Workpool

Work pool that the requestor is using, or none.

Last Input

A portion of the URL received in the most recent interaction. Typically the text Stream= or Activity= and the name of an activity or stream rule run by the URL.

First Activity

For alerts from interactive requestors, the first activity or stream run by this requestor in the current interaction. (This activity or stream may or may not have caused the alert.)

Options

If more than 20 alerts meet the criteria, the oldest 20 appear.

Field

Description

Lines per page

Enter an integer between 1 and 200 to change the number presented per page.

Number of pages presented

Set a maximum number of pages to present as numbered links, between 2 and 20.

Filter by

Optional. Enter a text string to limit the display to only alert lines containing an exact match anywhere within the line. Leave blank for no filtering.

Case is not significant. For example, enter [email protected] to find lines containing this value, or containing [email protected].

Definitions Alert log, key performance indicator
Related topics Understanding alerts
How to monitor interactive response times
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