C-2359 The Alert logs, a sequence of text files,
supplements the Pega server logs. The Alert log file is usually named
PegaRULES-Alert-YYYY-MMM-DD.log
. The similar Security Alert
log is named PegaRULES-AlertSecurity-YYYY-MM-DD.log
.
Don't confuse the Alert log with the Pega log, which contains error messages, debug messages, information messages and Java-related diagnostics. The Alert log typically contains only a small fraction of entries that appear in the full system log, usually those that identify events with performance implications.
The Alert log supports the optional Autonomic Event Services (AES) Enterprise Edition product, which summarizes and monitors alerts across multiple nodes in a cluster. See the Pega Developer Network article PRKB-25664 About Autonomic Event Services (AES), Enterprise Edition.
For detailed information about each alert type, see the PDN article PRKB-25374 Performance alerts, security alerts, and AES.
Select> System > Tools > Logs > Log Files to view or download the current Alert log from the server to your workstation.
Select> My Alerts to view selected rows of the current Alert log produced by your own requestor session.
By default, to reduce the demand on system resources, the system first writes log output to a memory buffer that is 8 kilobytes in size. So the contents on the disk log file may not yet contain output written minutes ago or even in some cases hours ago, depending on volume. SR-7761
By default, the date portion of the alert file name indicates the date
the application server was recently started on the node. You can update
the prlogging.xml
file to cause a new Alert log file to be
created at the start of each day, known as "rolling" the log
file. For details, see the Administration and Security 5.3
guide.
The PegaRULES Log Analyzer (PLA) tool (available from the Exchange area Pega Developer Network) can parse and summarize alert logs, as well as other logs.
You can convert a Process Commander Alert log to the XML format known as IBM Common Based Event (CBE), as expected by IBM's Generic Log Adapter. Optional RuleSets are required. See the Pega Developer Network document Generic Logging Adapter for PegaRULES Alert log.
appender, Autonomic Event Services, Pega log, PLA, prconfig.xml file, prlogging.xml file | |
Understanding
alerts
Working with the My Alerts display About the Log Files tool |