Patent ID: 8621285

Claim:
A computer-implemented method, comprising: in response to processing a data request with a computer: collecting, by at least a processor, first event log data associated with processing the data request in accordance with a pre-defined event verbosity level; and collecting, by at least the processor, second data that is request-based event log data associated with processing the request second data occurs simultaneously, and wherein collecting the second data includes automatically collecting the second data without regard to the pre-defined event verbosity level; determining, by at least the processor, if the request produces an error; if the request produces an error: reformatting and transferring, by at least the processor, the first event log data and the request-based event log data to a storage device; and if the request did not produce an error: discarding, by at least the processor, the request-based event log data, and reformatting and transferring the first event log data to the storage device, wherein the request-based event log data associated with processing the request are stored in the storage device as a sequential group, and wherein event log data from different requests are not interleaved with each other.