Features Overview

User Interface

JMyra comes with its own lightweight web server. All user interaction and configuration is done with an easy web interface. It gives you instant access to the complete documentation.

An easy way to learn to work wich JMyra are the "Guided Tours".
An on-screen help walks you through and explains the single steps of tasks like configuring the logger or managing users.

Central Configuration

Log configuration can be prepared and stored in one central place and distributed to other VMs with a few mouse clicks. This allows you to manage a large number of servers.

Logging

JMyra supports four logging APIs:

• the log4j API
• the new Java logging API (JDK 1.4 and later)
• the Apache Commons Logging API
• JMyra logging API

All four API can be used together in one application. All log messages, no matter which API is used, are handled by JMyra. Logging configuration can be updated online on the fly.

Log messages can, among other things, be written to a file, viewed online with a web browser, sent by email or relayed to a central log server.

The most popular feature ist the online log view. In addition to the convenience to view the log messages in your web browser while your application runs, you can search the messages, filter them to extract exactly the information you need, configure the output format, or mark lines with labels to easily find them again.

The log messages can be formatted to contain a timestamp, time elapsed since the last log message, log group, class name, method name, source line number, severity and of course the logged message itself.

Multiple sets of log configurations can be prepared and switched between at runtime. This feature is often used to limit logging during normal operation but switch to extensive logging if there are problems.