best practice for using system logs

Question

When I navigate to the System Logs tab, I saw there are different type logs in there. Is there any best practice of developer to check these logs?

David Jimenez · Accepted Answer

The first file I always check is tomcat-stdout.log . Most of the errors generated by the platform are logged there. If you then need more specific information, you can refer to the Appian documentation to locate a more specific file. 
 
 docs.appian.com/.../Logging.html

venkatrea696188 · Answer

My suggestion , Don't panic when you can't understand the log ... . From past one year I was into platform maintenance and Manage services so i am giving you most used logs which are helpful for debugging 
 
 tomcat.std --- The Holy book out of all . It will log almost every action that's going on in your system (Difficult to understand but gives you a idea of where went wrong) 
 Design_errors - It will gives you a brief about errors (Flashy red messages which end user panics too) that you see in front end 
 Group Management - Audit of each action performed on a group (Adding/removing users manually or automated) 
 UserManagement - It's for users (Creation/deactivation/name changes etc.,) 
 Site Usage - It will log user activity ,when they logged into site and any following actions like routing to a different page etc., 
 Web Api Performance logs /integration- when we turn on trace logs it will audit inputs and out puts 
 log-in /log-out related logs 
 datastore logs - for related call on a datastore etc., 
 
 You can go through documentation for better understanding.

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