Patent ID: 7475401

Claim:
A method executing within a computer having a processor, comprising: receiving a message relating to unified logging and tracing, the message having a predefined severity, the message further including a tracing message and a logging message, wherein the tracing message is associated with a location representing a delimited code area including one or more of a code package, and a code class, wherein the logging message associated with a category representing a code problem area including one or more of a database problem, and a security audit problem; dropping the message if the predefined severity does not reach a threshold severity; applying one or more filters to perform a filter evaluation of the message if the predefined severity reaches the threshold severity, and publishing the message if it reaches the threshold severity and passes the filter evaluation, wherein the filter evaluation is to determine whether the message is to be restricted, screened out, or published with an altered behavior; and sending the message to a destination if the message fails the filter evaluation.