Format of the Logfile & Tracefile, Parsing please some clarification

[Wessel]

Hi,

I'm trying to parse the log/trace files and make sense of the log and trade files of Ninjatrader, could somebody please give some input or give an url with a detailed explanation.

About the /log/*.txt files
Column 1: Timestamp in ISO format

Column 2 & 3:
What are the numeric columns 2 and 3 ? It looks like bitmask in column 3, is there any documentation available what these two numbers/bitmasks means?

Columns 4: is a textual details and is mostly self explaining :-)

Then the log files are produced in twin pairs:
Inside the /log directories there two "almost" identical logfiles here examples:
log.20210112.00000.txt
log.20210112.00000.en.txt
I can see differences in the trade execution the Time="" field uses two different date formatting:

It looks like the file with extension .en.txt has timestamps uses ?-format Time='12-Jan-21 8:44'
And the file without the .en. uses the US-localformat: Time='01/12/2021 08:44:40'

Not sure if there any other differences, however:
Which of the two logfiles should I use for parsing? What file will always have an consistent date/time format across different installs in different countries ?


About the /trace/*.txt files
Mostly sefexplanery. Not expecting any trouble parsing them.

[NinjaTrader_Jason]

Hello Wessel,

Unfortunately there is no documentation on what column 2 and 3 mean. The numbers below indicate the following as per column 3.

8 = order execution
32 = order update
64 = position update

There is a 2nd log file as per the language that is setup in NinjaTrader. For example, if language is set to German, the 2nd log file has ".de" instead of ".en". I use the log files without ".en" when I investigate them.