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datalearner's avatar
datalearner
Frequent Visitor
8 years ago

Power BI Report Server Log Files Administration

Hi All, Our Power BI Report Server LogFiles folder (C:\Program Files\Microsoft Power BI Report Server\PBIRS\LogFiles) is huge (38 GB) and requires more attention. I'm curious to know best practices and tips form the community on the Power BI Report Server log files. I welcome any insight on any of the following questions. Thanks!


1. How long do you keep RSHostingServiceyyyy_mm_dd_hh_mm__ss files ending in .log with a file type of Text Document?

2. How long do you keep RSpowerBIyyyy_mm_dd_hh_mm__ss files ending in .log with text document file type ?

3. How long do you keep SQLDumpr files ending in .mdmp with a file type of Dump File? 

4. How long do you keep SQLDumpr files ending in .log with a file type of Text Document? 

5. Is anyone doing Power BI reporting from these log files?

6. Is there a schema reference for the Power BI Report Server log files?

7. What nuances are poeople using for configuration settings regarding log files?

 

8 Replies

  • messerjc's avatar
    messerjc
    Advocate IV
    8 years ago

    I have no answers for you because we're just starting to explore using this too, but great questions so I'm replying in hopes of following this thread for good feedback. :)

    • Anonymous's avatar
      Anonymous
      Not applicable
      8 years ago

      yeah I'd seocnd all of these questions. Monitoring this in the production environment does not seem to be straight forward.

  • datalearner's avatar
    datalearner
    Frequent Visitor
    8 years ago

    Anonymous messerjc What determinations/decisions/approaches have you made with your log file folder?

    • riccardomuti's avatar
      riccardomuti
      Microsoft Employee
      8 years ago

      Since you mentioned memory dump files, they can be large and a sign of an unexpected error having occurred, or possibly still occurring over and over again. Have you checked the .log files for an exception occurring over and over again?

      • Anonymous's avatar
        Anonymous
        Not applicable
        8 years ago

        Yes I'm aware of that, hence the reason I was trying to figure out how to read the different log files. And my subsequent discovery that there's little to no documentation on which files do what.

         

         

         

         

  • kerrinhardy's avatar
    kerrinhardy
    New Member
    5 years ago

    Hi all

     

    We are looking at this now for our production on-premise instance of Power BI Report Server.  Now that a couple of years have passed since this thread was started, I was hoping there might be some advise or documentation available now to give us a head start.

     

    Thank you for all your help. 

     

    cc: datalearner Anonymous Anonymous messerjc