Comments on: SPTraceView – Lightweight Tool for Monitoring the SharePoint Diagnostic Logging in Real-Time

By: SharePoint Weekly » Reading and writing SharePoint logs

SharePoint Weekly » Reading and writing SharePoint logs — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 19:54:01 +0000

[...] you need something very simple to monitor your logs in real-time, you can use SPTraceView utility by Hristo Pavlov. SPTraceView also offers table view of active log file and you can open it [...]

By: Inside SharePoint Improving SharePoint Performance « Training and Certification

Thu, 06 Aug 2009 05:33:44 +0000

[...] SPtraceview This is one of my favorite tools because it provides a view of performance issues in real time. It’s useful for monitoring diagnostic tracing when working with custom Web parts. For more information, see SPTraceView – Lightweight Tool for Monitoring the SharePoint Diagnostic Logging in Real-Time. [...]

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SharePoint Weekly » Test — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 14:45:29 +0000

By: Tools for your SharePoint Toolbox: SPTraceView - mylifeinaminute.com

Tools for your SharePoint Toolbox: SPTraceView - mylifeinaminute.com — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 18:58:23 +0000

[...] on Jan.20, 2009, under Microsoft, Office, Sharepoint Server, Windows SharePoint Services SPTraceView (by Hristo Pavlov) is a tool which allows a user (with console and/or RDP access to a SharePoint [...]

By: Creating a SharePoint variation hierarchy fails: “An error was encountered performing this operation” - Integrating Radi with SharePoint and Dynamics CRM

Tue, 20 Jan 2009 05:36:40 +0000

[...] of the extra load that the LRO causes. I usually keep a note of the time of failure or even better, SPTraceView if I am watching over it in real time.They provided me with enough information to identify the [...]

By: How do I troubleshoot SharePoint? So many logs! - The Bamboo Team Blog

How do I troubleshoot SharePoint? So many logs! - The Bamboo Team Blog — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 06:10:03 +0000

[...] Also dont forget SPTraceView by Hristo Pavlov (Thanks Anders for the [...]

By: hristopavlov

hristopavlov — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 09:20:06 +0000

Hi Anders,

ULS log is based on the Event Tracing for Windows (ETW) technology. This is a message based unmanaged tracing system. The events are *always* sent and this is why SPTraceView can intercept and show them however the SharePoint trace service ignores many of the events and don’t save them. You can control from the SharePoint administration pages which trace entries go in the SharePoint log files but the log files would become huge if everything traced is saved the whole time.

Hristo.

By: AndersR

AndersR — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 08:56:34 +0000

Really cool tool! I used it to debug a weird error in AdvancedSearchBox, where i could see a ULS.SendTraceTag was send but it didnt show up in the log. SPTraceView however picked it up immediately!

Two questions:
Is it possible to detect from the tracetag method call if a log entry is written or not?
How do you pick up the trace if its not send? Diagnostics class?

thx for the tool!
Anders

By: Ashar

Ashar — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 04:13:23 +0000

Excellent idea! This enables admins/devs to monitor what is going on at the backend. I am looking forward to using this tool to help resolve several issues. I have already resolve one issue. Now I am focused to getting the variation issues resolvd which is failing when it comes to create hierarchies abruptly..
Hristo, way to go man >>>
Cheers

By: Operation aborted (Exception from HRESULT: 0×80004004 (E_ABORT)) « SharePoint Internals - Hristo Pavlov’s Blog

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 04:32:31 +0000

[...] none of them was the case for us. Trying to get more info on the issue I run SPTraceView which saved the day. After getting the error message in SharePoint, SPTraceView immediately [...]