topic Re: When are Logs moved to Archived Logs? in Management & Governance

When are Logs moved to Archived Logs?

rzenere_avvale — Sun, 11 Jun 2017 12:03:41 GMT

Hi everyone,

I have a QS 3.2.2 multinode installation with Shared Persistence.

Today I was looking at the Logs folder on the central node, and I found that there are still logs from over a month a go.

I thought that Logs were moved to Archived Logs every day/at every service restart (all nodes have been restarted recently).

So, my question is: when are Logs moved to Archived Logs?

Many thanks,

Riccardo

Re: When are Logs moved to Archived Logs?

Levi_Turner — Tue, 13 Jun 2017 01:36:17 GMT

When one of three conditions are met:

Service Restart
The log reaches 8MB
Every 12 hours

Re: When are Logs moved to Archived Logs?

rzenere_avvale — Tue, 13 Jun 2017 06:37:48 GMT

Hi Levi,

many thanks for your reply.

Another question: is there a reason why the logs are not moved to archived logs even if I'm definitely sure that two of these conditions have been met?

Many thanks,

Riccardo

Re: When are Logs moved to Archived Logs?

Levi_Turner — Tue, 13 Jun 2017 17:13:26 GMT

What log in particular? e.g. C:\ProgramData\Qlik\Sense\Log\......txt?

Re: When are Logs moved to Archived Logs?

rzenere_avvale — Tue, 13 Jun 2017 17:15:01 GMT

Script logs, those found in the folder C:\ProgramData\Qlik\Sense\Log\Script\*.txt

Re: When are Logs moved to Archived Logs?

Levi_Turner — Tue, 13 Jun 2017 18:21:11 GMT

Ahh. So those logs are a bit special in some ways.

There are two ways to reload apps:

In the Hub
From the QMC (as a task)

Script logs from (1) go to C:\ProgramData\Qlik\Sense\Log\Script\ and do not get archived.

Script logs from (2) go to C:\ProgramData\Qlik\Sense\Log\Script\ while the reload is occurring then get archived.

Re: When are Logs moved to Archived Logs?

rzenere_avvale — Tue, 13 Jun 2017 19:01:14 GMT

Ah, I see.

All clear, many thanks Levi!

Re: When are Logs moved to Archived Logs?

LubosZan — Sun, 25 Aug 2019 14:06:21 GMT

Hi, which service is responsible for moving the logs to archived folder (Qlik share folder)? Is it a repository service of central and all rim nodes, which handle this operation? In case of higher amount of logging (debugging), can it be responsible for excessive amount of memory RAM taken by repository service together with higher network traffic (moving log files from rim nodes)?

Re: When are Logs moved to Archived Logs?

Manikandan_PadmaNagarajan — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 03:33:45 GMT

The hours are configurable ?

Re: When are Logs moved to Archived Logs?

Daniele_Purrone — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 05:44:13 GMT

Hi @Manikandan_PadmaNagarajan , please open a new discussion as this post is from more than 8 years ago, and it concerns a very old version of the product.