The Sequence Diagram views offer the Log interactions view, which provide a means to visualize the correlation of log records in the form of interaction flows. Data that is displayed in these views is acquired from either an instance of a logging agent or from an imported log file. Your deployment requirements determine which mechanism you use. This kind of data acquisition enables generation of interaction flows that represent correlations of log records that are generated from different kinds of logs.
The Log interactions view presents correlation between instances of log records. Those interactions can be correlated based on various correlation schemas, which being pluggable, can be based, for example, on timestamps, URL and timestamps, according to your preference.
Sequence Diagram views can be opened from within the Profiling and Logging perspective. You can view the correlation from different levels of abstraction, starting with log interactions, through interactions among processes, up to hosts interactions across a network. The importance of this multilevel data presentation becomes obvious for the monitoring of e-business applications.
The Log Interactions view displays records that are colored according to their severity, following the same paradigm as in the Log view.
Clicking on the search button located on the toolbar at the top of the view opens the Search dialog box, which provides a list of agents to search for. The agent that is found will be highlighted and featured in the center of the view.
Related concepts
Log file correlation
Related tasks
Correlating log files
Viewing log interactions
Viewing log thread interactions
Working in the Sequence Diagram view
Working with log files
Related reference
Log thread interactions view
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