I am using Recent messages report (/admin/reports/dblog ) and out of the box I have very nice filtering by Module and by Severity. I would like to add an option to filter by text in Message column. dblog entries are not available via views, so I cannot add a view with exposed filter here.
What would be best way to add such filtering in secure way - I guess this will be either extending core or creating a module that will expose dblog/watchdog table to views?
thanks for any pointers!
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Hi Irina
I have often wondered this. I have had Log Filter on my list of possible migrations for a while; this uses a JS library to do the filtering. I notice on the project page of this module it also points to Better Watchdog UI which goes the Views route.
I think exposing logs to Views might be a more useful approach overall.
The Views Watchdog module for Backdrop "extends the Views module and allows to create custom lists of log entries". On Github, there is also a Wiki page with information about available fields, filter criteria, and more.
Thank you, Martin and Olaf! I had a feeling that there might be something out there already :)
I will check all three options (I will look at porting modules) and report back which one worked best for me.