So you're using the 'download', not svn HEAD, which means you can only use the 'refine focus' field to get counts right now (the count of matching search entries is not available from the website, only by downloading the source code & building it) - so I'll focus on using the 'refine focus' field to get this information.
Let's say your log contained a few errors like this: ERROR unable to find file1 ERROR authorization - unauthorized user x ERROR authorization - unauthorized user y ERROR unable to find file2 ERROR unable to find file3 etc.. If you want to get a count of how many times 'unable to find' showed up in the log, you could use this expression in the 'refine focus' field: msg ~= 'unable to find' or LEVEL >= WARN && msg ~= 'unable to find' ~= is a 'case-insensitive, partial-text match'..see the tutorial for a description of operators..you could use the LIKE operator (provides regexp support), but it's probably overkill in this case.. The only reason to use the 'LEVEL >= WARN' part to the expression is if you have informational or debug msgs containing 'unable to find' that you want to exclude.. The table will only show events matching the expression, and the status bar will be updated to show the count of displayed rows (giving you the number of this type of error in the log). The same thing applies to the authorization.. msg ~= 'unauthorized user' or LEVEL >= WARN && msg ~= 'unauthorized user' Hope that helps.. Scott On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 12:00 PM, laredotornado <[email protected]>wrote: > > Thanks for your quick reply. When you say, > > > same thing via the refine focus field > > what is an example of such an expression? I'm having a hard time finding > examples in the tutorial. - Dave > > > > Scott Deboy wrote: > > > > The svn HEAD revision of Chainsaw V2 provides the count of rows matching > > the > > search, as well as currently displayed row count (which may be due to an > > expression in refine focus). > > > > This means you either have to enter an expression in the search field > > which > > will report the number of matches for an error, or do the same thing via > > the > > refine focus field. > > > > Hope that helps.. > > > > Scott > > > > On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 11:45 AM, laredotornado > > <[email protected]>wrote: > > > >> > >> Hi, > >> > >> I just downloaded Chainsaw V2 for Mac 10.6.3. How would I configure > >> chainsaw so that it gives me a report which is a count of the number of > >> times a certain error has occurred. We are trying to get a sense of > >> which > >> errors are occurring most frequently in our log files. > >> > >> Thanks, - Dave > >> -- > >> View this message in context: > >> > http://old.nabble.com/Chainsaw-V2-question%3A-Counting-numbers-of-errors-tp28671981p28671981.html > >> Sent from the Log4j - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > >> > >> > >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > >> For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > >> > >> > > > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://old.nabble.com/Chainsaw-V2-question%3A-Counting-numbers-of-errors-tp28671981p28672122.html > Sent from the Log4j - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > >
