--- title: Logging, reporting, and troubleshooting description: This section provides an overview of the available logging, reporting, and troubleshooting features for PingFederate. component: pingfederate version: 13.1 page_id: pingfederate:pingfederate_monitoring_guide:pf_logging_reporting_troubleshooting canonical_url: https://docs.pingidentity.com/pingfederate/13.1/pingfederate_monitoring_guide/pf_logging_reporting_troubleshooting.html llms_txt: https://docs.pingidentity.com/pingfederate/llms.txt docs_for_agents: https://developer.pingidentity.com/build-with-ai/docs-for-agents.md revdate: December 11, 2023 section_ids: pingfederate-logs: PingFederate Logs --- # Logging, reporting, and troubleshooting This section provides an overview of the available logging, reporting, and troubleshooting features for PingFederate. ## PingFederate Logs The `server.log` file represents the primary troubleshooting log. Along with an HTTP trace from the browser, which can be generated from a debugging application like Fiddler, this file is helpful for identifying issues that must be resolved. The following table identifies the available PingFederate logs and summarizes their purposes. | Name | Purpose | | --------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | `admin.log` | Records the actions that users of the Administrative Console and the Administrative API perform. | | `admin-event-detail.log` | If detailed event logging is enabled, this log records detailed information about each applicable administrative event that users perform using the Administrative Console and the Administrative API. | | `admin-api.log` | Records the actions that users of the administrative API perform. | | `runtime-api.log` | Records the actions that API users perform by 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 provisioning activity only. Useful when troubleshooting issues that relate to provisioning. | | `server.log` | Records PingFederate runtime and administrative server activities. For more information about the primary troubleshooting log, see [Creating an error-only server log](pf_create_error_only_server_log.html). | | `init.log` | Records only Jetty messages that are generated prior to starting PingFederate. | | `thread-pool-exhaustion-dump.log` | Contains log messages and stack traces of all threads in PingFederate's Java Virtual Machine (JVM) *(tooltip: \
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)*.This log is written only if you enable the runtime notification for thread pool exhaustion events. For more information, see [Configuring runtime notifications](../administrators_reference_guide/pf_configuring_runtime_notifications.html). |