Diagnostic Logs

Question

I have recently noticed that my logs are getting very large than they use to be. The file size has increased from 20KB to 73,000KB!!

Answer 1

Have you set verbose logging for any of the categories in Central Administration?

Answer 2

Nothing that i can see under Monitoring. I have the log retention set to 1 day, nothing has been selected under event throttling, and the Enable Usage Data Collection is unticked! and the same with Health Data.

Answer 3

Can you try restarting SharePoint 2010 Tracing Service on all servers? Can you open the ULS log file to see if any events are being logged very frequently say Category=High?

Answer 4

Open the SharePoint PowerShell and run the "Get-SPLogLevel" cmdlet.

It should tell you if you've got any Trace Severity levels turned up or event severities turned to verbose.

Full description of various logging in SharePoint can be found here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg193966.aspx

Also, if you run the "Clear-SPLogLevel" cmdlet it will set your farm back to default logging levels.

Answer 5

Hi fasttest,

besides check "configure diagnostic logging" http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee748656.aspx

you should better use the unified logging services(ULS) to watch whether there are some error casue the issue. http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=194152

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/sofocle/archive/2012/01/03/monitoring-sharepoint-2010.aspx

Answer 6

Hi fasttest,

Generally speaking, the value of "logcutinterval" control the log file size.When the specified time limit expires, the active log file is closed and a new log file is created.

have you read the related article: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.sharepoint.administration.spdiagnosticsservice.logcutinterval(v=office.12).aspx

Answer 7

Cool, so how can i change this limit?

Answer 8

Set-SPDiagnosticConfig Set-SPDiagnosticConfig -LogCutInterval 60