Logging ORDA Calls on the Server
Since its release, ORDA has grown in popularity and is now widely used on your production servers. With 4D v20, we provide two improvements on how OR...
May 31, 2023
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Logs
Evolution of the diagnostic log
Year after year, feature after feature, the diagnostic log has grown into a massive file on busy servers. With 4D v19R5, we included a new database pa...
April 28, 2022
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Pause logging and log configuration file
For 4D v19, we started a long-term refinement of our logs. Our first effort was to improve their format to give you better and clearer information. As...
October 7, 2021
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Evolution of the 4D Log Format
We recently reviewed the formats of our logs to increase their readability and their compliance with automated analysis. We made these improvements in...
April 28, 2021
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Who did what: Store user aliases in the journal
By now, you've surely discovered the new ability to identify your users thanks to the SET USER ALIAS command. In 4D v18 R2, the command's behavior has...
February 25, 2020
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Optimize your ORDA code with requests logging
Ever need to analyze the traffic of your ORDA requests between a client and the 4D server? Sometimes it may take a while to receive a response from th...
August 28, 2019
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A new tool at your fingertips to analyze debug logs
With 4D v17 R5, we've improved the debug logs by adding methods and allowing each process to be traced independently. With this R-release, we've gone ...
July 31, 2019
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Better debug logs with these improvements
As a 4D developer, you may have already activated the debug log to troubleshoot problems. 4D v17 R5 introduces several improvements to help you analyz...
June 4, 2019
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Log your SMTP conversations
As promised in a previous post, each R-release includes more advances related to email functionality, unlocking its hidden power. 4D v17 R5 provides ...
April 25, 2019
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Easy access to log files
Log files can be extremely useful for troubleshooting. They're also a big help for finding the root cause of an incident. Logs let us track of where a...
February 15, 2018
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