View activity log data for a message flow by using the web user interface.
About this task
Each row in a log represents an activity. For more information about what is displayed for each
activity, see Activity log structure and types.
Activity logs are enabled by default. You can view the data in the web user
interface if the message flow is deployed to an integration node or an integration server that is
running.
The high-level steps that you take to view activity logs
in the web user interface are as follows.
- Browse to the message flow for which you want to view activity logs.
- Click the Activity Log tab.
- Click Fetch Activity Log.
- Customize the view by using the Entries per page
field or reordering the data in the columns.
The following procedure describes the process in more detail.
Procedure
To open the Activity Log view for a message flow, complete
the following steps.
- On the Servers tab of the web user interface, click the tile for
the relevant server to open it.
The applications that are deployed to the chosen
server are shown.
-
Click the tile for the application that contains the relevant message flow to open the
application.
The message flows in the chosen application are shown.
-
Click the tile for the relevant message flow to open it.
The properties for the
chosen message flow are shown.
- Click the Activity Log tab, then click
Fetch Activity Log to populate the Activity Log view.
For
each activity log entry, you can see the following information.
- Timestamp shows the date and time of the activity entry. Click the column
header to change the order of the messages.
- BIP shows the BIP message ID that is associated with the activity log
entry. Click the BIP message ID to see the details of the message.
- Message shows the message text that is associated with the activity log
entry.
- Thread ID shows the thread number that is associated with the activity
log entry. Click the magnifying glass icon to see only messages with the same thread ID. To reset
the activity log to show all messages, click the magnifying glass icon again.
- Node shows the message flow node that the activity log relates to.
- Resource Manager shows the resource manager (if any) that is associated
with the activity log entry.
- Tags shows information about the type of node that the activity log
relates to.
Note: The activity log view loads only when you first click Fetch Activity
Log. It does not reload if you leave the Activity Log tab and
then return to it. To see the most up-to-date information, click Refresh in
the tab header.
- Optional: Use the menu in the Entries per page field
to select the number of entries that are displayed on the page.
The default value is
10. Available values are 10, 25,
50, 100. 500, and
1000.
- Optional: Use the menu in the pages field to select
the relevant page number when the entries are displayed on more than one page.
- Optional: Click one of the column headings that are listed in step 4 to reorder the data in forward or reverse order on the
selected column.
By default, the entries in the Activity Log view are ordered on the Timestamp column
in chronological order.
- Optional: Type a Thread ID (such as
1234) into the Search field to filter the entries in
the Activity Log view to show only entries with the specified
Thread ID. To revert to showing all entries, click the "x" in the
Search field.
If no activity logs match the specified
Thread ID, the message No activity logs match the current filter
is shown.
- Optional: Click the magnifying glass icon in one of the rows in the
Thread ID column. If the magnifying glass icon displays a plus (+) sign
before you click it, the Activity Log view changes to show only entries
with the same Thread ID as the selected row. If the magnifying glass icon
displays a minus (-) sign before you click it, the Activity Log view
changes to show all activity log entries.
- Optional: Click a message ID in the Message column to
see the full details and the timestamp of the message.
- Optional: Click Export to export the activity logs to
a file. The file activityLog.json is created in the
Downloads subdirectory of the user's home directory.