Skip to main content

Official Support Articles

Search or browse our knowledge base to find answers to your questions ranging from account questions to troubleshooting error messages. The content is curated and updated by our global Support team

Announcements
Skip the ticket, Chat with Qlik Support instead for instant assistance.

How to enable Audit Logging in Qlik Sense Enterprise on Windows

cancel
Showing results for 
Search instead for 
Did you mean: 
Sonja_Bauernfeind
Digital Support
Digital Support

How to enable Audit Logging in Qlik Sense Enterprise on Windows

Qlik Sense Audit logging allows tracking of additional information, such as user actions in the Qlik Sense Management Console.

Audit logging can be enabled individually on services and audit logs are stored in the \Audit log subfolder. 

Example: AuditActivity_Repository.txt log, located by default in %ProgramData%\Qlik\Sense\Log\Repository\Audit

 

Environment

Qlik Sense Enterprise on Windows 

 

To enable (by service):

  1. Open the Qlik Sense Management Console
  2. Navigate to the Service
  3. Open the node to configure
  4. Select Logging from the Properties menu on the right-hand side
  5. Choose your desired Audit logging level

 

Additional logging levels

In addition to default audit logging, you can increase the Engine logging level to include user selection capture. 

  1. Stop the Qlik Sense Engine service
  2. Navigate to C:\ProgramData\Qlik\Sense\Engine\
  3. Open the settings.ini file
  4. Edit the file to add:
    [Settings 7]
    AuditLogAllSelection=1
    AuditLogMessageLimit=10000
    MaxCurSelEntries=6​

     
    You need an empty row after a setting in settings.ini for it to take effect. i. e. press enters after the last line.  
    The parameter MaxCurSelEntries is optional but can be used to increase the number of actually selected entries to be captured in the log. The default value is 6.

  5. Restart the Engine service and Service Dispatcher.
  6. Make selections on an application in the hub. 
  7. Go to C:\ProgramData\Qlik\Sense\Log\Engine\Trace and look for a ServerName_Audit_Engine.txt.

 

Related Content:

Qlik Sense: Working with audit logs to check user activity on sheet/app level 
How to audit who deleted apps in the Qlik Sense Management Console  

Labels (1)
Comments
Sonja_Bauernfeind
Digital Support
Digital Support

Hello @JHuis You can change the logging level in the Management Console, yes. However, you cannot bump the level all the way up to include these for the engine:

AuditLogAllSelection=1
AuditLogMessageLimit=10000
MaxCurSelEntries=6​

That needs to be done in the settings.ini file. 

All the best,
Sonja 

JHuis
Creator II
Creator II

@Sonja_Bauernfeind ,

 

thanks!

Version history
Last update:
‎2022-09-01 08:18 AM
Updated by:
Contributors