PingFederate Server

PingFederate log files

PingFederate records document server events depending on your configuration preferences.

PingFederate generates these logs that document server events:

admin.log

Records actions performed by administrative console users.

admin-event-detail.log

Records detailed information about each applicable administrative console event performed by administrative console users if detailed event logging is enabled.

admin-api.log

Records actions performed by administrative-API users.

runtime-api.log

Records actions performed by API users using the OAuth Client Management Service, the OAuth Access Grant Management Service, and the Session Revocation API.

transaction.log

Records individual identity-federation runtime transactions at specified levels of detail.

audit.log

Records a selected, configurable subset of transaction log information plus additional details, intended for security-audit and regulatory compliance purposes.

provisioner-audit.log

Records outbound provisioning events, intended for security-audit purposes.

provisioner.log

Records only provisioning activity.

server.log

Records PingFederate runtime and administrative server activities.

init.log

Records only Jetty messages generated prior to PingFederate start up.

thread-pool-exhaustion-dump.log

Contains log messages and stack traces of all threads in PingFederate’s Java Virtual Machine (JVM), including Java threads and VM internal threads. This information can help with troubleshooting the root cause of potential thread exhaustion events. The format of the thread dumps can be consumed by utilities such as jstack that is included with a Java Development Kit (JDK).

This log is written only if you enable the runtime notification for thread pool exhaustion events. For more information, see Configuring runtime notifications.

These log files are written to the PingFederate log directory. The default location is the <pf_install>/pingfederate/log directory. As needed, administrators can change the log directory by modifying the pf.log.dir property in the <pf_install>/pingfederate/bin/run.properties file.