System administration in WebSphere Application Server V8.5, Part 3: High Performance Extensible Logging (HPEL)

System administration in WebSphere Application Server V8.5, Part 3: High Performance Extensible Logging (HPEL)

IBM WebSphere Application Server V8.0 introduced a new way to store and work with log and trace content called High Performance Extensible Logging. HPEL was further improved in the newly released WebSphere Application Server V8.5 making it even more useful. This article explains what HPEL is all about, and why it matters.

Table of contents

  • Introduction
  • Introducing HPEL
  • New in WebSphere Application Server V8.5
  • Using logViewer command
  • Using HPEL with Cross Component Trace
  • Share your log and trace data
  • View log or trace data in real time
  • View log or trace data from the admin console
  • Conclusion
  • Resources
  • About the authors
  • Comments

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IBM developerWorks - Don Bourne / Igor Belyi / Scott Highbarger