Logging Level Settings tool

Basics

Use this tool to support debugging by temporarily overriding the severity settings in the prlogging.xml file for the current node.

For example, you can change the logging level for activities in the Work- class from FATAL to DEBUG. Thereafter, Olog() calls in Java steps that have a severity setting of DEBUG or lower display in the log.

The changes you make take effect immediately and remain in force until the server on the node is stopped, or until you or another developer use this tool again to reset them.

The prlogging.xml file is not altered. Logging on nodes other than your current node is unaffected.

Completing the Panel

• Logger Name - Identify a Java class or other logger category to be logged. Use SmartPrompt to list all Java classes in com.pega.pegarules, or enter a category. Examples:
  • Rule-Obj-Activity to review or update the logging level for all activity executions
  • Rule-Obj-Activity.<activity name> to update the logging level for all activities with a given name in any Applies To class.
  • com.pega.pegarules.engine.context.Agent to update the level for all agents

Note: RuleSets and the Pega 7 Platform class hierarchy are not relevant to logging. If you set logging events for an activity named Data-Party.Research and your system includes several activities of that name (in various RuleSets and versions), executions on the current node of any of these activities may produce logged events.

• Current Level - Select the current logging level for the class in the Logger Name field. Each level causes messages of that level and all lower levels except OFF to be included:
  • ALL — Same as DEBUG
  • DEBUG — Least severe
  • WARN
  • ALERT
  • ERROR
  • FATAL — Most severe
  • OFF — No messages logged

  Through the Log-Message method or Java oLog() calls, your code determines the severity of each message.

• Reset all loggers to default settings- Click to remove all changes made with this tool by you or others. Logging for the current node reverts to the original settings in the prlogging.xml file.

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