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Can somebody explain how watchdog searching works? I can never get it to locate the log entries I'm looking for.

Let's say I have the following watchdog entries:

476722  10/Jun 10:31  notice    content  page: updated Protective Factors in Elementary School.
476723  10/Jun 10:31  notice    php      Notice: Undefined offset: 3 in _menu_translate() (line 777 of /var/www/html/domainnamehere/includes/menu.inc).
476724  10/Jun 10:40  notice    content  page: updated School/District Administrators.
476725  10/Jun 10:42  notice    content  page: updated Teachers.
476726  10/Jun 10:42  notice    php      Notice: Undefined offset: 3 in _menu_translate() (line 777 of /var/www/html/domainnamehere/includes/menu.inc).

All of following return "No log messages available":

drush wd-show "Undefined offset"
drush wd-show "%Undefined offset%"
drush wd-show "menu_translate"

If I want to find all of the "Undefined offset" watchdog entries, what Drush command do I have to run?

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  • Your commands are valid, but you had initially used ws-show, which I assumed was a typo. Is there a chance that you were trying drush ws-show? – hw. Jun 10 '13 at 15:14
  • yes, 'ws-show' was a typo. – DesignGoggles Jun 10 '13 at 15:29
  • hmm..as an FYI, this seems to be the case with any PHP errors in the Watchdog logs. – Chapabu Jun 10 '13 at 15:52
  • Interesting. It does seems to work with other error types, even custom ones. – DesignGoggles Jun 10 '13 at 16:03
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You could just pass the stdout from Drush as the stdin to grep.

Example:

drush wd-show | grep 'Undefined offset'

As a bonus - If you want the errors in a file, try the following:

drush wd-show | grep 'Undefined offset' > ~/Undefined-errors.txt

This'll put the errors into a text file in your home directory :-)

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  • Not exactly what I had in mind but gets the job done. – hw. Jun 10 '13 at 15:31
  • The only caveat would be that you have to add the -count modifier. wd-show is only includes the last 10 entries. Also, I don't believe this would translate into wd-delete. The matching functionality is OOTB Watchdog functionality, the question is... why doesn't it work the way the documentation states? – DesignGoggles Jun 10 '13 at 15:34
  • If you want it to work with wd-delete something like the following would work: drush wd-show | awk '{print $1}' | xargs drush wd-delete. However, you are right and it should just work. I've tested the command with other errors from the watchdog logs and it works fine, but I don't have any sites quickly to hand that have any PHP errors in them. – Chapabu Jun 10 '13 at 15:41
  • Actually that last command won't work at all because of the Id line in the first column :( – Chapabu Jun 10 '13 at 15:42
  • @Chapabu answered the question correctly and succinctly even though I was hoping for a different response. :) – DesignGoggles Jun 10 '13 at 20:20
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Actually I wrote this feature for drush. Didn't realize this problem untill now.

The explanation: the watchdog message is stored as a text with variables that are replaced by using the t() function. OTOH drush wd search functionality is based on a database query.

That's the output you get:

# drush wd-show --type=php

 ID  Date          Type      Severity  Message                                                                   
 95  20/Jun 22:28  php       notice    Notice: Undefined variable: output in mothership_item_list() (line 304 of 
 94  20/Jun 22:27  php       notice    Notice: Undefined variable: output in mothership_item_list() (line 304 of 
 93  20/Jun 22:26  php       notice    Notice: Undefined variable: output in mothership_item_list() (line 304 of 
 91  20/Jun 22:26  php       notice    Notice: Undefined variable: output in mothership_item_list() (line 304 of 
 89  20/Jun 22:26  php       notice    Notice: Undefined variable: output in mothership_item_list() (line 304 of 
 88  20/Jun 22:26  php       notice    Notice: Undefined variable: output in mothership_item_list() (line 304 of 
 87  20/Jun 22:26  php       notice    Notice: Undefined variable: output in mothership_item_list() (line 304 of 
 86  20/Jun 22:26  php       notice    Notice: Undefined variable: output in mothership_item_list() (line 304 of 
 85  20/Jun 22:26  php       notice    Notice: Undefined variable: output in mothership_item_list() (line 304 of 
 84  20/Jun 22:26  php       notice    Notice: Undefined variable: output in mothership_item_list() (line 304 of

But that's the database content:

# drush sql-query "SELECT wid,message FROM watchdog WHERE type='php' LIMIT 10"

wid message
27  %type: !message in %function (line %line of %file).
59  %type: !message in %function (line %line of %file).
60  %type: !message in %function (line %line of %file).
61  %type: !message in %function (line %line of %file).
62  %type: !message in %function (line %line of %file).
63  %type: !message in %function (line %line of %file).
64  %type: !message in %function (line %line of %file).
66  %type: !message in %function (line %line of %file).
67  %type: !message in %function (line %line of %file).
68  %type: !message in %function (line %line of %file).

It doesn't seem there's an accurate fix for this. Drush could try to do its best on searching by filtering also by the 'variables' column of the watchdog table though.

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  • Thank you very much for the explanation; this makes sense as to why I can't search for individual php errors. – DesignGoggles Jun 25 '13 at 16:44

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