Sitecore Basics

In this blog, we will discuss about Logging Mechanism in sitecore.

Sitecore uses Log4net for logging purpose.

We can set Logs path as shown below:

<sc.variable name="dataFolder" value="C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\HelixDemo\Data\"/>

<log4net>

 <appender name="LogFileAppender" type="log4net.Appender.SitecoreLogFileAppender, Sitecore.Logging">

      <file value="$(dataFolder)/logs/log.{date}.txt"/>

      <appendToFile value="true"/>

      <layout type="log4net.Layout.PatternLayout">

        <conversionPattern value="%4t %d{ABSOLUTE} %-5p %m%n"/>

      </layout>

      <encoding value="utf-8"/>

    </appender>

<!-- Other logs also you can declare in same fashion -->

</log4net>

There is an admin page to see logs

http://demo/sitecore/admin/Logs.aspx

you can also use log analyzer tool to analyze the logs.