Severity

Description

DEBUG

Information only valuable for developers to analyze the internal status of a program.

PATH

Information for developers and support engineers to understand the execution flow of a program. entering() and exiting() as well as throwing() and catching() method calls will supply their information on this severity level.

INFO

Informational text to record information valuable for support engineers and developers to understand and trace the business logic, for example, business document numbers, status changes and so on.

ERROR

Uncorrectable error conditions in program execution, which terminate the current application without fulfilling the desired task. The application remains usable afterwards. assertion() method calls may be used to test a Boolean expression and stop with an error if it is not fulfilled. Also technical context information in exception handling situations must use severity ERROR.