Voxeo Developers Corner

Last week we announced LogSearch Beta for our Evolution developer portal. As part of the beta process we will be improving it with a number of new features based on feedback from our customers. 

The first round of changes adds several new features including: message categories, filtering, easy reversing and a new black color theme.

The first thing you will now notice is that when you login you will see a tool bar at the top with a bunch of checkboxes in it:

These boxes don’t do much until you run a search but once you search for something you will start to see some of the power of what it can provide. 

To start with lets run a search for a session and see what we get:

As you can see you get the full set of log messages here. Whats is new here is that you now can see that we have colorizing of the log messages making it easer to pick out the important messages in the log stream. 

The first thing you might want to try doing is clicking on one of the filters and see what happens. For example if you click “Playback” you will filter out everything but the browser playback messages:

The next thing you might want to try is clicking on the “User Filter” button to filter stuff down to only being user facing log messages:

Another new feature is the new button to easily reverse the results to be in chronological order instead of most recent first. This can make it a lot easer to read things like session logs where you are trying to understand the flow of what happened. Do be aware however that if your search spans a large amount of time it may take longer to display the initial search results in this mode since we need to search over the entire time block and gather all the results before we display them in the UI:

Lastly one other thing you may like to try is switching to the “black” theme we now include. To enable this open your preferences dialog and select VoxeoBlack on the theme menu on the General tab:

You will then get your UI rendered in proper old school programer colors:

 Hopefully these improvements will help make the tool more useful.  As always we are looking for feedback on ways we can improve our offerings so please leave us feedback either in the comments below or in our LogSearch feedback forum on the Evolution developer site. 

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