Purpose

The Dashboard page is the most used page in the application, most users bookmark this page and use it as the starting page.

On the Dashboard page you can:

1. Get an overview of the logging events available in the logging table.
2. Drill down to see the logging evens within the category / time frame of your interest.
3. Narrow one a single logging event, by choosing a row.
4. Define a global filter

How to use

1. The summary table gives you an overview. Cells, row heading and column heading are selectable. If you click in a cell logging evens within this cell will be displayed. If you click in a column heading all logging evens for the cells in this column will be displayed, likewise if you click in a row heading.
2. In the Log Rows table, you can select a logging event (row) to display the details about this logging event.
3. If the Log Rows table contains more than one page of rows, you can move between the pages with the "previous page" and "next page" buttons on the bottom of the table.
4. You may create a filter to fine grain your search, a filter will have impact from the summary table and when drilling down. The filter may be created for one ore more log columns. Each column filter is defined through choosing a filter type (“Starts with”, “Contains”, “Ends with” and “Equal to”), and specifying a text to match according to the filter type.

You may create a filter to fine grain your search; a filter will have impact in the Dashboard Page, the Logger Summary pagen and in the New log event’s page.

On log levels, a filter is defined through choosing the log levels to include, putting check marks next to level. Default is that all levels included.

On Logger, Thread, Message and Exception a filter is defined through defining a filter text, and choosing a filter type:

1. Starts with: The text in the column must start with the same text as in the filter.
2. Contains: The text in the column must contain the same text as in the filter.
3. Ends with: The Text in the column must ends with the same text as in the filter.
4. Equal: The text in the column must exactly match the text as in the filter.
5. Not: For the each of the above opions you a 'Not' option.

You can also specify a data/time intervall to filter on.

On the right side of the Logger and Thread input fields is a right arrow, clicking this will give you a list of possible values (i.e. a distinct collection of values that exists in the log table). You can click on a value in the list to copy it to the filter input field.

In the top of the panel you can have a drop down with predefined filters (that is if any filters are predefined), by selecting a predefined filter, all the input fields will be filled accordingly to the content of the predefined filter. You may change the content of the different input field before you click the use button.

If you want to create a predefined filter, you can put a check mark in the SaveAs check box and specifying a name. The values of the input fields will then be saved to a predefined filter.  
The predefined filters are saved to an xml file which is stored in the Filters folder (in the application directory). The filters can be stored per data source. This means that you can have different predefine filters for each data source (The name of the file is defined in the web.config file).