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Where Are All Those Log Files?

Metric Insights is a dockerized application. All logs from Docker containers are stored in one directory /opt/mi/log.

All logs are redirected to the rsyslog service that will store them in files. Alternatively, Splunk logging service can be used.

Table of contents:

Metric Insights' logs follow the ISO-8601 standard of date and time representation.

Types of Logs	Description
console.log	Log of the console container.
da-index-update.log	Log of the index-update service in the data-analyzer container.
da-main.log	Log of the data-analyzer service.
data-analyzer.log	Log of the data-analyzer container.
dataprocessor.log	Log of the dataprocessor container.
image-generator.log	Log of the image-generator container.
logger-debug.log	Detailed log of the logcollector service, which is responsible for generating patcher.log.
logger.log	Log of the logcollector service, which is responsible for generating patcher.log.
mi.log	Log of the PHP application (migration-tool).
mysql.log	Log of the MySQL container (optional).
patcher.log	List of applied patches.
patcher.debug	Detailed log of the patcher service, explaining the processing of applying patches.
redis.log	Log of the Redis container.
web.log	Log of the web container.

Containers logs Logs are managed by the orchestration service and can be accessed using the respective commands:

The table below describes log files available for all orchestrated environments.

Types of Logs	Description
console.log	Log of the console application.
da-index-update.log	Log of the index-update service in the data-analyzer module.
da-main.log	Log of the data-analyzer service.
logger-debug.log	Detailed log of the logcollector service, which is responsible for generating patcher.log.
logger.log	Log of the logcollector service, which is responsible for generating patcher.log.
mi.log	Log of the PHP application (migration-tool).
patcher.log	List of applied patches.
patcher.debug	Detailed log of the patcher service, explaining the processing of applying patches.

Types of Logs	Description
mi.log, mi.debug, mi.error	General logs from the UI and generator (migration utility scripts)
dataprocessor.log	Logs from the Data Processor service
seed.log	Logs from the Data Processor Seed Node service
mysql.log	mysql.log
web.log	Logs from the Web Service

Types of Logs	Description
mi.log, mi.debug, mi.error	General logs from the UI and generator (migration utility scripts)
mi.system	Sytem logs
network.log	Network logs
patcher.log	Logs from the Patcher
tomcat-access.log, application.log, insight.log	Logs from the Dataprocessor

Logging can be configured using System Variables that are available from the UI.