Viewing the recent logs and downloading the log files

Last Updated : Feb 15, 2021 |

About this task

Usage Metering retains the log files for a period of 30 days. Usage Metering automatically deletes the log files that are older than 30 days.

When viewing the logs, you can select the Pause check box to pause log monitoring.

Selecting the Pause check box stops adding new rows of recent logs in the Recent Logs area. Thus, enabling you to read the displayed logs without the line numbers getting changed.

The Recent Logs area shows the Usage Metering server logs.

You can clear the Pause check box to resume viewing the new logs.

Note that all logs are written to the log files irrespective of whether the Pause check box is selected or cleared.

Procedure

  1. Log on to the Usage Metering Collector interface by using a web browser.
  2. On the Home page, click OVERVIEW.
  3. To view the recent logs, select the Show Recent Logs check box.

    Usage Metering Collector shows the recent logs in the Recent Logs area.

  4. Optional To filter, pause, and view only specific number of logs, do the following:
    1. In the Recent Logs area, click Show Log Options .
    2. In the Lines field, type the number of recent logs that you want to view.

      The minimum value is 5 logs and maximum value is 1000 logs. The default value is 100 logs.

    3. Select the Pause check box to pause log monitoring.
    4. In the filter logs field, type the filtering criteria to filter the logs. For example, date or text.
  5. To download the log files, click DOWNLOAD LOGS.

    The log files are downloaded in a .zip file.

    The .zip file contains the Usage Metering server logs and the Usage Metering Collector installation logs.