MicroStrategy components generate tons of logs about low-level activity such as memory use, service information, errors, and so on. One of the most valuable logs is DSSErrors.log
. If MicroStrategy has any problems, it is good practice to start from this log and look at the information. You can find it using this command:
# cd /root/mstr10/microstrategy_logs
If we open the log file, we can see rows of data and search information about particular issues:
For example, let's imagine that the MicroStrategy server was shut down. In order to understand why it happened, we should open DSSErrors.log
and look to see what the problem is. It will be in the last couple of rows.
There are two files, as shown in the following screenshot:
The default size of DSSErrors.log
is 2048
KB. When it becomes more than 2048
KB, MicroStrategy renames it DSSErrors.log.bak
and creates a new DSSErrors.log
file.
It is possible to change the destination of the DSSErrors.log
file. Here are links that give a detailed overview of how to do it: