Details to log when starting an application

Posted by Karl on Stack Overflow See other posts from Stack Overflow or by Karl
Published on 2010-06-10T10:49:09Z Indexed on 2010/06/10 10:52 UTC
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To help support and anyone who may use one of my applications I tend to log a few things during the application startup.

Currently I log:

  • Start Time
  • App Name
  • App Author
  • App Version
  • App Classpath
  • Current working directory
  • Java vendor
  • Java version
  • Max heap size

Taking into consideration this application may be used / supported by a whole host of people can anyone think of any other vital details which we / others should log for good practice?

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