Pega-TracerViewer

Pega-TracerViewer is a Java Swing based tool to view and analyse Pega Tracer xml files.

This tool show the tracer xml file entries in a table or tree format.

Can open bigger tracer xml files. In case of OOM, change the heap size in the cmd file and try again.

Features

• View the tracer xml in Tree mode and Table mode
• Search within the Tracer output for useful content. results are highlighted in yellow
• Compare working vs non-working Tracer output for issue diagnosis.
• Set Filters for Event Types in on table column
• Overview dialog to show (if any)
  1. Failed events
  2. Elapsed time sorted in descending order.
  3. Current Search results
  4. List of bookmarks. Point 1. & 2. only pick events that are innermost (leaf) in the event execution hierarchy.
• Supports Cosmos React application trace , the output additionally includes DX API interaction IDs and DX API paths.

How it works :

• Note: Java is required (Min version: Java 11) and JAVA_HOME env variable needs to be set to run this applicaiton.

The tool can be downloaded from Releases page under Assets section.

1. Extract 'pega-tracerviewer-<version>.zip' to a folder.
2. The tool is launched using the one of the scripts in the ‘bin’ folder. For Windows - ‘pega-tracerviewer.bat’ For ubuntu and Mac - ‘pega-tracerviewer’
3. Default heap size is set to 2G.
4. The heap size and other jvm parameter can be updated by modifying the launch script and updating the ‘DEFAULT_JVM_OPTS’ variable.

Build from source :

To build the project use the following command:

  $ ./gradlew build

Known Issues :

1. In case you encounter below error, perform the following steps:

   
   
   UTF-8 has occured while loading <some file>

   • Reset Tool settings
     • Edit -> Settings
     • Click Reset then OK.
   • Clear Recent files
     • File -> Clear Recent