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.

To exclude failed records from the IAS Service log file:

  1. Stop the Endeca IAS Service.
  2. Navigate to the <install path>\IAS\workspace\conf directory.
  3. In a text editor, open ias-service-log4j.properties.
  4. Uncomment the line containing the log4j.logger.com.endeca.eidi.executor.ErrorChannelImpl setting.
  5. Save and close the ias-service-log4j.properties file.
  6. Restart the Endeca IAS Service.

Once you un-comment the setting, the IAS Server does not write any information about failed records to the log file. However, failed records are still counted as metrics under FAILED_RECORDS.