have to open login-audit.csv.2016-05-25.gz file ?

RE: have to open login-audit.csv.2016-05-25.gz file ?

gauravp0004 — Fri, 02 Oct 2020 15:28:42 GMT

Thank you , it was helpful . Will post if i come up with something .

RE: have to open login-audit.csv.2016-05-25.gz file ?

Mike Schmitt — Fri, 02 Oct 2020 15:27:06 GMT

I don't believe there is a way, other than developing your own new custom plug-in to access arbitrarily-named files within the system log directory. This would admittedly be useful to many of us, so if you do I hope you'll publish it in the App Market.

RE: have to open login-audit.csv.2016-05-25.gz file ?

gauravp0004 — Fri, 02 Oct 2020 15:25:06 GMT

That can be one solution yes, i was thinking of something like it will check for file if it is in zip format unzip it then read contents and insert in logs. Can achieve the same in on premise as i know the location but for cloud i am not sure how to do it.

RE: have to open login-audit.csv.2016-05-25.gz file ?

Mike Schmitt — Fri, 02 Oct 2020 15:21:46 GMT

You will probably want to develop an Appian process that parses CSV data you input manually (either via file upload or even copy-and-pasted raw data). First, download the GZ files, mass unzip them (i think 7zip can do this), then upload to Appian.

RE: have to open login-audit.csv.2016-05-25.gz file ?

gauravp0004 — Fri, 02 Oct 2020 15:09:53 GMT

Yes , that is the plan . Weekly sunday it will execute and insert the data but requirement is to insert 1 year data as well in beginning to start then every week PM will execute . We need historical data as well to start

RE: have to open login-audit.csv.2016-05-25.gz file ?

Mike Schmitt — Fri, 02 Oct 2020 15:07:54 GMT

I would recommend you run an automated process every night to handle the last day. You could probably even do this just once per week if you really need to. It won't work to wait for a year and then try to do it all at once.

RE: have to open login-audit.csv.2016-05-25.gz file ?

gauravp0004 — Fri, 02 Oct 2020 15:06:07 GMT

you are correct cross checked and yes one month after zips it, along with weekly data , first i need to push a year data . i am worried on that

RE: have to open login-audit.csv.2016-05-25.gz file ?

gauravp0004 — Fri, 02 Oct 2020 15:04:50 GMT

Talking about attached .

RE: have to open login-audit.csv.2016-05-25.gz file ?

Mike Schmitt — Fri, 02 Oct 2020 14:58:38 GMT

As far as I've seen, log files in Appian are not gzipped until they're about a month old.

RE: have to open login-audit.csv.2016-05-25.gz file ?

gauravp0004 — Fri, 02 Oct 2020 13:23:08 GMT

Requirment is that i need to parse a week data on every Sunday. But appian cloud i dont have log acces , whatever i see in /suite/logs/ is login audit in zip format , only today logs i see in log format which i can read in readcsv log but not the zip logs of yesterday and day before. I have to read all one week log and insert in database to ise it further. I accomplished it in onprimise but cloud not working for me

RE: have to open login-audit.csv.2016-05-25.gz file ?

Peter Lewis — Fri, 02 Oct 2020 12:49:41 GMT

Mike is talking about just downloading the file and unzipping it manually. Are you hoping to parse these logs using the log reader plugin? In the plugin page on the App Market, it says: "Does not load files outside the logs directory or files that do not end in .log.* or .csv.*." so I don't think you can parse those logs using the plugin.

Can you talk a bit more about your use case here? If you just need to retrieve the information from an old log file, it seems easiest to just download it once and unzip it. If you need to continuously return historical information on login data, you'd probably be better off creating a process that runs each day that parses the log and inserts all the login information into a database table that's easier to query.

RE: have to open login-audit.csv.2016-05-25.gz file ?

gauravp0004 — Fri, 02 Oct 2020 02:54:03 GMT

Thanks Mike . You mean Advaced Unzip utility ? how to take a log from UI to download and unzip as file is on appian cloud and i can see it on /suite/logs.

RE: have to open login-audit.csv.2016-05-25.gz file ?

Mike Schmitt — Thu, 01 Oct 2020 15:42:23 GMT

The ".gz" implies that it's been compressed (similar to a "zip" file). I believe you will have to download the file from System Log Files and open it in a compressed file viewer that can handle gZip format - my suggestion would be the free utility 7zip.