Use the WebSphere application server trace service

Tracing is useful for determining errors from the application server log files. Trace allows you to obtain detailed information about the execution of application server components, including clients, and other processes in the environments. Trace files show the time and sequence of methods called by the application server runtime classes, and can be used to pinpoint the failure.

Refer to these topic for more information on enabling and using the application server trace service.

Enable and disable the trace service
This topic describes how you can use the administrative console to enable and disable the trace service for a server.

Interpret the contents of a trace file
This topic describes the format of the information that is written to the trace file.

Use wsadmin to configure a trace for your application server
This topic describes how to use the wsadmin to configure a trace for your application server

Use wsadmin to turn traces on and off for your application server
This topic describes how to use wsadmin to turn traces on and off in your application server