Get all the features that the standard database log (dblog) messages view misses.
Filter and order - search in - watchdog log events
by any or all parameters - time, type, severity, user etc. - except message content.
Save and re-use log filters
Makes it much quicker to get in and check the site's health.
Weed out obsolete log entries
Delete log events that matches a filter. Get rid of all the junk.
Don't translate messages unless you really need that
Translation of log messages is a performance hog, and you might not need it at all.
And it may still be turned on temporarily or permanently if necessary.
Make sure the log view is always using the admin theme
An option. Nifty if the site has a user role dedicated for log viewing only.
How does it work?
Log Filter adds a new tab to the site's 'Recent log messages' view.
The new tab/view lists and displays logs pretty much like the standard dblog view.
But it adds a filtering form that can filter by much more than simply type and severity.
It also removes the 'Clear log messages' option from the standard view - deleting all logs indiscriminately is rarely desirable.
Log Filter doesn't...
- change logs
- ruin the standard log list and event views
- add overhead
- need dblog, only uses watchdog
Related modules
- Better Watchdog UI - log listing in a view
- Watchdog Aggregator - collects events across multiple sites
- Logging and alerts
- Inspect - log variable dumps and error traces
Requirements
- PHP 5.3+
- Judy - a small Javascript library, only included on Log Filter's tab/page
Project information
- Module categories: Administration Tools, Developer Tools
- 260 sites report using this module
- Created by jacobfriis on , updated
- Stable releases for this project are covered by the security advisory policy.
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Releases
Pre-release version: 7.x-1.5-beta1 released 17 Sep 2016 at 11:43 UTC