Analyzing User Issues
For user issues that are not immediately resolvable, log files provide additional information logged by the application regarding a user’s time spent accessing and using the application.
The LFA gives the administrator the capability of querying across numerous log files for log events that were pertinent to the user's session. For example, in a situation where a user named Casey Smith reports an issue with her application at approximately 13:00, use the LFA to query events pertinent to Casey that occurred between 12:30 and 14:00. To refine the results, include the condition that the log level must be greater than or equal to one, which represents an error condition.
The LFA output includes information as to which file each log event came from. The administrator can, after finding an error or other log event of interest, check back in the original log file and look for events nearby that might give additional context useful for troubleshooting the issue.