Diagnostic Tracing is a way to find out the details of what Vantage does when performing a variety of actions such as importing logs, generating a report, and so on. Sometimes an error may occur during these actions, and the error presented to the user can often be cryptic and meaningless. Tracing shows the steps that led up to an error, and shows more detail about the error itself than the dialog presented to the user.
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Archive for April, 2009
Diagnostic Tracing in Vantage
Tuesday, April 28th, 2009
Vantage now with multi-processing!
Monday, April 20th, 2009
We’ve been doing some work lately to make Vantage take advantage of multi-cpu and multi-core processors. It looks like we’ve improved the performance of importing multiple log files by around 50%, and the most common reporting scenarios by around 30% (tested on a quad-core CPU). Before we release this build into the wild, I’d like to give it as much field testing as possible. If you are interested in obtaining a copy of this build, (more…)
Updates to Vantage, Analyzer & Live
Friday, April 17th, 2009
We’ve issued a bunch of auto updates for nearly all WebSpy products today
Of particular note is a fix to the Vantage range:
- Fix: Improved partition matching when filtering by a date range
This will benefit you if you’re running reports with a date range filter such as last week or yesterday (which is pretty much everyone), and are using the default storage partitioning scheme of “Date” (again… pretty much everyone). (more…)
