Event log

By default, events that occur while the Database Server is running are logged and timestamped. Typical events that are logged include:

• Database Server starting or stopping

• database files opened and closed by the Database Server

• consistency checks performed on files that were not closed properly

• new, completed, upcoming, and currently running schedules

• the reason an enabled schedule was not successful

• scripting errors from FileMaker script schedules

  Note  When the Allow Script Error Log setting is enabled, script events are stored in FMSEScriptErrors.log.

• predefined errors and conditions that the Database Server detects in your configuration

• current properties settings when the Database Server starts up, and settings that were changed during a Database Server session

• startup restoration status and information about databases that were restored

Events are logged in the tab-delimited Event.log file that is created in the FileMaker Server/Logs/ folder.

Notes 

• When the size of the Event.log file reaches the log file size limit, it is renamed Event-old.log and a new Event.log file is created.

• In Windows, events are also logged in the Windows Application Log, accessed with the Event Viewer. See Viewing activities in the Event Viewer (Windows).

• For information about the error conditions reported in the Event.log file, see FileMaker Server event log messages.

Related topics 

• Monitoring FileMaker Server

• Changing the language of the event log

• Script event log

• Using log settings