Read System Logs in Process Model / Dashboard on Appian Cloud

RE: Read System Logs in Process Model / Dashboard on Appian Cloud

Mike Schmitt — Thu, 01 Sep 2022 14:06:15 GMT

Use the "readCsvLog()" function with caution. Among other things, it (incorrectly) strips away quotes from lines that contain commas, making it nearly impossible to use (at least) for the design errors log. The newer "tail" function(s) fix this error, and read log files starting from the most recent lines instead of from the beginning, though in those functions pretty much all of the filtering options are broken. The plug-in doesn't seem to be under active maintenance. It's still usable of course, but with lots of bending-over-backwards depending on what you need out of it.

RE: Read System Logs in Process Model / Dashboard on Appian Cloud

Andrzej Hejchman — Thu, 01 Sep 2022 09:40:44 GMT

Thanks

I've just found this plugin (I think that's the one you're referring) -
https://community.appian.com/b/appmarket/posts/log-reader

Function readcsvlog() works like a charm.

RE: Read System Logs in Process Model / Dashboard on Appian Cloud

Stefan Helzle — Thu, 01 Sep 2022 09:31:58 GMT

There is a plugin to read these logs.

Depending on your use case, processing the logs and trying to make something useful out of them can become quite tricky.

On a high-availability environment, each node writes its own logs and depending on where the log reading process is executed, it will read the local log only.