Logging introduction

In addition to the configurable logs for the Spotfire Server, the nodes, and the service instances, the Action Logs and System Monitoring feature helps administrators keep an eye on the health of their Spotfire environment.

The action logs collect information about system events that are sent through a web service from Spotfire Analyst, Spotfire Automation Services, and the Spotfire Web Player to the Spotfire Server. These event logs, along with those from the Spotfire Server itself, can be saved either to files or in a database.

System monitoring takes periodic snapshots of key metrics on the Spotfire Server and the Spotfire Web Player services, and stores this information in the same location as the action logs. The logs can then be analyzed in a Spotfire client.

For the data function services, JMX is the only way to capture logs. for more information, see "Monitoring the service using JMX" in the following documentation.

Administrators have many options for how to configure this feature, including which events and system statistics should be logged, from which hosts logging information should be collected, and how the logs are pruned or archived. For more information, see Monitoring and diagnostics.