Activity Logs
Use Activity Logs as the first point of investigation when something unexpected happens in a message flow and associated external resources.
Before you begin
- Read the concept topic Activity Log overview.
- Read the reference topic, Activity Logs structure and types for more information about the structure and content of Activity Logs, and about the tags that you can use to enrich the log data and filter its content.
- View and configure the runtime properties for Activity Logs, by following the steps described in Viewing and setting runtime properties for Activity Logs.
About this task
Activity Logs provide immediate, basic information about what is happening in your message flows, and how they are interacting with external resources.
Procedure
- To view recent Activity Log information
for individual message flows, use the Activity Log view in the web user interface.
For more information, see Viewing Activity Logs for message flows in the web user interface.
- If you would like to view activities over a longer period, you can use an Activity Log policy to write Activity Logs to files, as described in Activity Log policy (ActivityLog), and Writing Activity Logs to files.