Finding Trouble Spots Using Diagnostics

In MicroStrategy, the process of logging and analyzing operation and performance information is known as diagnostics. Information can be logged for many Intelligence Server and operating system features and functions. You can configure the log files to record diagnostics information at different levels to different files. For example, you can log all MicroStrategy errors to the default log file of DSSErrors.log, and log all information about Memory Contract Manager (see Governing Intelligence Server Memory Use with Memory Contract Manager) to a new log file called MemoryLog.log. You can also log performance information, such as the time taken to perform various operations and the total number of operations performed.

However, if too much information is logged, it can degrade the system's performance. By default, logging is set to a minimum. At some point you may want to detect problems in the system for which logging is not enabled by default.

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