Using Activity Logs

Activity Logs provide immediate, basic information about what is happening in your message flows, and how they are interacting with external resources. As a systems administrator, you can use Activity Logs to understand recent activities affecting your systems. The logs are also useful for diagnosing problems that would not be easily resolved by using lower-level trace. For example, they can help you to understand why your message flow is not processing any messages from a remote resource.

Use Activity Logs as the first point of investigation when something unexpected happens in a message flow. Activity logging is enabled by default, which means that it can provide an early indication of changed behavior, such as broken connections to external resources. For more information about Activity Logs, see Activity Log overview.

You can also view and configure the runtime properties for Activity Logs, by following the steps described in Viewing and setting runtime properties for Activity Logs.

For 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, see Activity Logs.