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When the Trace Viewer starts, select a trace file to view. A trace file may be opened in one of two ways:

To open a trace file directly from its location on the web application server, use the File, Open HTTP menu item and provide the appropriate URL.
To open a trace file on the local/network file system use the File, Open menu item

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Once a trace file is opened, it displays a list of all the requests on the left side including the Service Name, the Start Time and the End Time.

To display the XML contained in the request and response entries for a displayed request, select a request entry.

Filtering Options

Since the trace file may contain a very large number of messages, the trace viewer limits the number of messages that can be displayed. It does that by displaying messages traced within the last x number of Minutes, Hours or Days.

Use the Max Messages to limit the number of messages displayed.

Note: Default Note. By default, the Trace viewer displays the first 200 messages in the trace file.

To view only errors in the trace, check the Show only Errors option.

Note: Refresh Display. After changing any of the above filtering options, click the refresh button

in order to redisplay the request entries based on the new options.

The First Message Found field indicates the date and time of the earliest entry in the trace file.

Viewing as Text

To view the trace file as text rather than viewing each entry in its XML format, use the View, As Text menu option. The contents of the trace file are displayed in text format in a separate window.