Service logs

The service logs listed in this topic are available for both Web Player services and Automation Services. You can configure the log files listed here in the file log4net.config.

To track the resource usage for services, you can enable logging and monitoring of the services by configuring log files in the log4net.config file. See Customizing the service logging configuration for information about exporting and editing this file.

Note: The log4net tool is part of the Apache product family. For more information, see https://logging.apache.org/log4net/.

In the configuration, specify writing all information to a log file by using the default format %message.
For most log files, you can specify the logging level to write, and which properties to write.

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

General logging properties are written into each of the log files listed below. For more detailed information about the additional properties that can be written to each log file, see its linked reference topic.


Log file	Default level	Description
AuditLog.`<ID>`.txt	`INFO`	At the `INFO` (default) level, for example, user login and logout, and analysis open and close are logged. At the `DEBUG` level, state changes (apply and save) are also logged.
DateTimesLog.`<ID>`.txt	`OFF`	Time points from the services logs are collected in this file to simplify joins between tables. If logging is set to the `DEBUG` level, this file can get very large, so time points are not written at the microsecond level.
DocumentCacheStatisticsLog.`<ID>`.txt	`OFF`	The cached analyses are sampled regularly.
MemoryStatisticsLog.`<ID>`.txt	`OFF`	Writes resource usage per document. Logs the amount of memory used by tables and views, the number of internal document nodes, and the execution time. At the `INFO` level, the total values per document are logged/ At the `DEBUG` level, detailed information per table is recorded.
MonitoringEventsLog.`<ID>`.txt	`INFO`	At the `INFO` level, the start up and shut down of the service are logged. At the `DEBUG` level, session create and remove, analyses open and close, and cached analyses add and remove are also logged.
OpenFilesStatisticsLog.`<ID>`.txt	`OFF`	The open analyses sampled regularly.
OutgoingRequestLog.`<ID>`.txt	`OFF`	Logs information about all outgoing SOAP requests to the server.
PerformanceCounterLog.`<ID>`.txt	`INFO`	Standard and custom performance counters logged regularly.
RequestLog.`<ID>`.txt	`OFF`	Logs information about all incoming requests to the Web Player and the Automation Services service.
QueryLog.`<ID>`.txt	`OFF`	Logs all queries for data that are generated and sent to external data sources, when working with data connectors.
Spotfire.Dxp.Worker.Host.Debug.`<ID>`.log and Spotfire.Dxp.Worker.Host.`<ID>`.log	n/a	The general purpose log files. Spotfire.Dxp.Worker.Host.Debug.`<ID>`.log writes all logging levels. Spotfire.Dxp.Worker.Host.`<ID>`.log writes logging levels down to `INFO`
TimingLog.<ID>.txt	`INFO`	Logs similar information as the AuditLog, except all events also log a start time, an end time, and a duration.
UserSessionStatisticsLog.<ID>.txt	`OFF`	The existing sessions are sampled regularly.

For more information about other logs, see the following topics.