Hi,

Good question, I took a look and only other options I can see is
that TxnLogToolkit also outputs the number of txns in the file (see
https://zookeeper.apache.org/doc/r3.5.4-beta/zookeeperAdmin.html#Recovery+-+TxnLogToolkit
)

Looking at org.apache.zookeeper.server.persistence.TxnLogToolkit.java it
counts it in the dump() function, which is not the most efficient way
either. But what you could do is add a method that only counts the txns.
Or, well, create a Jira for this so someone will implement it :)

But let's wait if anyone knows a better way?

By the way, 4 letter commands will be deprecated soon, so keep that in mind.

Regards,
Norbert

On Wed, Jul 11, 2018 at 3:21 AM Jostein Elvaker Haande <jehaande@gmail.com>
wrote:

>  Hello,
>
> I'm trying to find an effective way to find the number of transactions
> stored in the ZooKeeper transaction logs. The only method I've found so far
> is by using the Java class 'org.apache.zookeeper.server.LogFormatter' which
> outputs the following after it has formatted a log file:
>
>   EOF reached after 203 txns.
>
> Now I could of course make a script to process each log file through this
> log formatter, and extract the count from the last line of stdout, but I'm
> wondering if there's an easier method.
>
> I've read through the ZK documentation, and tried the ZK commands (aka The
> Four Letter Words) to see if any of these offer this metric, but I could
> not see it.
>
> So my question is - is there a simpler approach to find this count?
> --
> Yours sincerely Jostein Elvaker Haande
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> - Adlai Stevenson
>
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