Monday, 22 November 2010

Using the ULS log viewer to search for a correlation id

In my previous post I showed you how to turn on the more usefull yellow-screen-of-death error page instead of the SharePoints standard custom error pages.

However you can get the same detaíled information about the error by searching for the correlation id in the SharePoint log files using the ULS log viewer.


File -> Open From -> ULS

Download and start the ULS log viewer. Now open the log file(s).
You can choose to open an existing log file (File -> Open From -> File) or to open a stream that updates and displays the logs as they occur right realtime (File -> Open From -> ULS).

Normally you want to search for the correlation id. Strangely you can't du that by using the find command in the edit menu. You will have to make a filter on that particular correlation id. A little cumbersome.

Use a filter to search for a correlation id

Now you can see all logentries made on that particular correlation id, and get almost the same (and more) information as the yellow-screen-of-death can give you. But its a cumbersome process.

Details on a log entry

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