Colour Coding the Log.nsf

Make Your Domino Logs Easier to Read with Colour Coding

Have you ever tried to scan through a wall of plain black text in search of one critical detail? It’s not fun. Colour coding is a simple yet powerful way to highlight what matters most, helping you spot important information instantly.

We’ve been leaning into this idea across various tools for Domino:

• Domino itself supports colour‑coded console attributes
• Our Notes.ini viewer already colour codes lines of text for clarity.
• And naturally, we built both of these into our Domino Optimizer.

On the back of our Preemptive AI for Domino work, we’ve been exploring more ways to help Administrators identify issues faster. Tools like Events4 and DDM already do a great job, but my colleague Grant asked:  “How about colour coding log.nsf as well?”

So we did just that - Introducing Colour‑Coded Log.nsf

Each line in your log.nsf now displays a colour based on severity. It’s simple, effective, and makes scanning logs dramatically easier.

To enable it, just sign our updated template and replace the existing design of your log.nsf.

Best of all — we’re releasing it for free.

How to Get It

Unfortunately, since HCL hasn’t open‑sourced log.ntf, we can’t simply post the modified template here. Instead:

• Create a new support ticket at preemptive.freshdesk.com.
• Mention you’d like the colour‑coded log.nsf.
• Attach a copy of your current log.ntf (this proves you already have it).
• Once we receive your request, we’ll send you the updated version.

Happy colour coding!