I review my Boinc Manager's Event Log regularly to see if there were tasks that ended abnormally or if there are other issues that I need to address.

The amount of data to sift through is enormous.

Is there a way to set some kind of filter to just display errors/failures? I see the Diagnostic Log Flag checkboxes but these add to the amount of data.

I'm looking for a quick way to do this, like you can do with Windows' Event Viewer's Custom Views > Administrative Events filter.

Thanks.

You could use an alternate manager like BOINCtasks, which lets you color code and sort messages by various flags. http://efmer.com/b/

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Another useful way in BT (BOINCTasks) is to set the color coding in the result history. If Green [default i think], and it says "Report OK" or "Report OK+", no log sifting needed.

Edit: The fun part of this approach is, it gives a local timestamp when it happened, making it easy to scan for the relating Event log entries.

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And since the output of the Event Log is constantly written to stdoutdae.txt (which when filled to capacity is renamed to stdoutdae.old and a new *.txt is started) in the BOINC data directory, you could search through the text file. BOINC has options through cc_config.xml to increase the size of the log files, the default being just 2 megabyte.

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Thank you Ageless, SekeRob2, and noderaser.

This is excellent information. I've considered using BOINCTasks so now I will try it. I like the way it handles multiple BOINC clients.

I also appreciate the info about the stdoutdae.txt file - I could write and run a script to parse it and present a filtered view. The challenge here is determining a comprehensive set of target strings to search for so that I don't miss something important.