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guruprasathb
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8 years ago

Power BI Log Files

There are quite few logs are generated by Power BI Services in the following folder (C:\Program Files\Microsoft Power BI Report Server\PBIRS\LogFiles). Is it possible to change the log file path? Than...
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guruprasathb
Regular Visitor
8 years ago

Hi,

 

I tried changing the value in config.json file and restarted the service. But it still creating in C:\ only.

 

"Logger.path": "E:\\LogFiles\\",
            "Dumper.path": "E:\\LogFiles\\",

 

Kindly advice.

 

 

Thanks,

 

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guruprasathb
Regular Visitor
8 years ago

Just noted this property in config.json file but still no luck.

 

"restartOnChangesTo": "Dumper.flags,Dumper.path,Dumper.preventIfContains,listenerUrl,Logger.path"

  • guruprasathb's avatar
    guruprasathb
    Regular Visitor
    8 years ago

    Still not able to come out of problem statement? Any other inputs!!

     

    Thanks

    • LeeDoty1's avatar
      LeeDoty1
      New Member
      7 years ago

      PBIRS does maintain backward compatibility with older versions of SSRS, so this will still work: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/reporting-services/report-server/report-server-service-trace-log?view=sql-server-2017

       

      Having said that, the config in config.json should overlay that legacy config.  One thing to note about the config.json is that it is hierarchical.  So if you'd like to configure all processes to log to the same directory, it's best to do it in the top level config section, and then you can override that setting at the per-process level if necessary.

       

      As an example, here's the first few lines of a config.json file that sets all of the processes' loggers to the c:\temp\logs directory:

       

       

      {
          "Config":
          {
              "Logger.path": "C:\\temp\\logs\\",
              "Dumper.path": "C:\\temp\\logs\\",
              "ASPort": "5132",

      ...

      ...