Patent ID: 11947413
Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G

Claim 7:
8. A computer program product for more effectively recording information in system logs, the computer program product comprising a computer-readable storage medium having computer-usable program code embodied therein, the computer-usable program code configured to perform the following when executed by at least one processor:
detect a plurality of errors over a specified period of time;
store information associated with the plurality of errors in a memory buffer;
preprocess the information in the memory buffer to condense the information and remove duplication, wherein removing duplication comprises representing multiple instances of a specific type of error with a single instance, and providing a count indicating how many instances of the specific type of error the single instance represents; and
determine whether the multiple instances of the specific type of error span multiple log files and, if so, providing the single instance in its entirety and the count in each of the multiple log files.