Logging Overview

This page is accessed via Configuration and Administration > System Administration > Logging Overview.

NOTE: You must be a DBA to access this page.

Logging Overview provides a quick way of suppressing logging to check performance issues. If you notice a slowdown in a process, you can suppress logging and see if the performance improves. If it does improve, you can go to Log Files in power data and turn off the relevant log files. Suppressing the log files here does not turn off log files, but suppresses them so you can check performance quickly.

Click on an ID to show the users with that log enabled. A pop-up window opens displaying all the users.

If you have turned on Log Usage Statistics optional feature, many columns are added to this page, such as "1S", "2S", and "3S". These columns represent the average amount of logging seen that time ago, over time. For example, in the 1S column, you might see [8], meaning there were 8 occurrences which happened one second ago. The columns have several groupings: 1 second increments, 5 second increments, 1 minute increments, and 1 hour increments. The values in each column follow this format: [x]-y/z. In that formula, [x] is the number of current occurrences, y is the average number of occurrences, and z is the standard deviation. The effect of this is that the system creates rolling statistical time windows of log usage, by log ID and overall. This can be useful to identify any excessive logging and identify newly enabled log IDs that should be disabled. Using this feature adds some contention to the logging infrastructure. It can be disabled to revert to optimal logging performance.

Suppressing Logs

1. Click the Suppressed check box next to any ID to suppress the log.
2. Click Suppress All to suppress all logs other than Exception.