Configuring Logging

This section describes how to configure logging for IAS.

Configuring logging for IAS components and command-line utilities
You can change the default logging configuration of the Endeca IAS Service and any IAS components you run from the command line.
Setting log properties to troubleshoot crawls issues
You can set logging properties that may help determine the causes of connection, authentication, and request/response time issues between IAS and target data sources.
Excluding failed records from the IAS Service log file
If a record fails during a crawl, the IAS Server discards the failed record and writes a truncated version of the record to the ias-service.log file. If you do not want the IAS Server to write any information about failed records to the log file, you can disable logging for failed records by un-commenting a setting in the ias-service-log4j.properties file.
Enabling log timing information for crawl processing steps
You can enable a logging setting in ias-service-log4j.properties that instructs IAS to write log timing information for each processing step of a crawl. This additional logging information is especially useful for troubleshooting performance issues.
Examining the Endeca IAS Service log
The Endeca IAS Service logs messages for all IAS components and crawls in the ias-service.log file.