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Accessing task execution logs (new view)

Task logs gather business and technical information about the executions: message, severity, timestamps, and versions. You can use these logs to analyze and debug your tasks or send them to the Support for additional assistance.

About this task

Child Job logs are not available if you have selected the Use an independent process to run subjob option of the tRunJob component in Talend Studio.

You can access the logs of a particular task from its details page as well.

Log messages exceeding 100 KB are truncated.
Information noteNote: The logs load at different frequencies. It depends on the version of the remote engine:
  • 2.11.0: The first logs load in about 10 secs, then about every 30 secs.
  • 2.x: The logs load about every minute.

Data older than 31 days will be cleared automatically as per our log retention policy.

Logs are automatically refreshed.

Procedure

  1. Open the Operations page.
  2. Use the faceted search at the top of the page to filter the list.
  3. To access the logs, do one of the following:
    • Click a task run.
    • Hover over the name and click > Logs.
    You are redirected to the Run overview page.

    Depending on the task run and its status, some actions are possible from the Logs tab.

    This table presents the actions you can perform for Running tasks from the Logs tab
    Task type Logs Downloading the log file Sorting/Filtering the logs
    Pipeline tasks The logs load automatically. Click Download: The log file is downloaded immediately.

    If some logs are still loading, they will not be exported into the log file.

    You cannot sort or filter the logs.
    Other tasks The logs load automatically.
    If you want to read one particular log, enable Pause auto refresh. During this pause, the log view does not refresh and no logs are loading.

    A message New logs available, click here to load them displays to load the logs again.

    You can also disable the toggle manually.

    Click Download: Download all the logs or select a time range. The log file is generated and downloaded automatically.

    If some logs are still loading, they will not be exported into the log file.

    Generating and downloading the log file may take some time. When you clicked Download, you can close the Run overview page.

    You can sort the logs with the newest or oldest logs on top.

    You can filter the logs by time range.

    This table presents the actions you can perform for Successful tasks from the Logs tab
    Task type Logs Downloading the log file Sorting/Filtering the logs
    Pipeline tasks All the logs loaded.

    The logs are cleared when the engine stops.

    When the engine is running, you can download all the logs. You cannot sort or filter the logs.
    Other tasks All the logs loaded.

    The logs are cleared after 31 days.

    You can download the logs from the last 31 days.

    Click Download to download all the logs or select a time range. The log file is generated and downloaded automatically.

    You can sort the logs with the newest or oldest logs on top.

    You can filter the logs by time range.

    This table presents the actions you can perform for Terminated, Failed, and Rejected tasks from the Logs tab
    Task type Logs Downloading the log file Sorting/Filtering the logs
    Pipeline tasks Depending on when the run finished:
    • The logs load automatically, or
    • All the logs loaded.

    The logs are cleared when the engine stops.

    When the engine is running, you can download all the logs.

    Click Download: The log file is downloaded immediately.

    If some logs are still loading, they will not be exported into the log file.

    You cannot sort or filter the logs.
    Other tasks Depending on when the run finished:
    • The logs load automatically, or
    • All the logs loaded.

    The logs are cleared after 31 days.

    You can download the logs from the last 31 days.

    Click Download to download all the logs or select a time range. The log file is generated and downloaded automatically.

    If some logs are still loading, they will not be exported into the log file.

    You can sort the logs with the newest or oldest logs on top.

    You can filter the logs by time range.

    Terminated status includes the Manually, Timed out, and Engine stopped statuses.

    For more information about the downloaded log file, see Downloading execution logs.

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