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title: Logging in other formats
description: PingFederate provides the option of writing the audit log, the provisioner audit log, the provisioner log, and the server log to commonly used databases with failover to file logging.
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# Logging in other formats

PingFederate provides the option of writing the audit log, the provisioner audit log, the provisioner log, and the server log to commonly used databases with failover to file logging.

For the audit log and the provisioner audit log, administrators can choose instead to write the information to the Common Event Format (CEF), a differently formatted log file that can be used by Splunk, or both.