Himmelstein SP Connections HAD207 SharePoint Logging & Debugging

SharePoint Logging & Debugging

The Troubleshooter’s Best Friend

Jason Himmelstein Sentri, Inc

www.sharepointlonghorn.com

jase@sharepointlonghorn.com

@sharepointlhorn

Cornelius J. van Dyk Crayveon Corporation

www.cjvandyk.com/blog

c@sharepointmvp.net

@cjvandyk

• SharePoint Practice Director, Sentri Inc.

• MCITP, MCTS SharePoint 2010

• Microsoft vTSP ● virtual Technology Solutions Professional

• SharePoint Foundation Logger

(http://spflogger.codeplex.com)

• Web: www.sentri.com

• Blog: www.sharepointlonghorn.com

• Twitter: @sharepointlhorn

• LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/jasonhimmelstein

• Chief SharePoint Architect, Crayveon

• 7 time Microsoft MVP

• MCITP, MCTS SharePoint 2010

• SharePoint Foundation Logger

(http://spflogger.codeplex.com)

• Blog: www.cjvandyk.com/blog

• Twitter: @cjvandyk

• LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/cjvandyk

• How has SharePoint traditionally done logging

New Functionality in SharePoint 2010

• Size limitation

• Easy Granular tuning, with visibility into what’s tuned

• Ability to specify number of days to log

• I’m smart, why don’t I want to see everything?

• How does Flood Protection work?

• How do I turn it off and on?

With this option enabled, if the same event fires 5 times

within 2 minutes, SharePoint will suppress the event from

logging and throw a summary event at the 2 minute mark.

The default behavior and can be customized using

PowerShell and the Set-SPDiagnosticConfig cmdlet.

• How do I turn it off and on?

• Health Logging timer jobs are disabled by default

• How to enable:

• Filter by Disabled and enable one by one

• The drivers behind Web Analytics

• True detail on who clicked what, and what they saw

Finding the root cause

Correlation IDs

• What is this weird 32 character message and why

do I care?

• How are they used in SharePoint 2010?

• Why are they useful?

The Developer Dashboard

• How do I turn it on for a limited scope only?

• There’s some great info here for developers, but what does it

tell me from an Operations/Support perspective?

• How can I convince my development team to code for it?

• SPMonitored Scope

● Not available in Sandboxed Solutions

The Developer Dashboard (cont’d)

• Enabling the dashboard

● 3 modes

• Off

• On

• OnDemand (recommended)

● STSADM

• stsadm -o setproperty -pn developer-dashboard -pv [off | on | ondemand]

● PowerShell

$j = [Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPWebService]::ContentService.DeveloperDashboardSettings; $j.DisplayLevel = ; $j.Update()

$j = [Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPWebService]::ContentService.DeveloperDashboardSettings;

$j.DisplayLevel = 'OnDemand';

$j.Update()

Optional parameters

$j.TraceEnabled = $true;

$j.RequiredPermissions = '%MaskSetting%';

The Developer Dashboard (cont’d)

The Developer Dashboard (cont’d)

The Developer Dashboard (cont’d)

SPMonitoredScope

• The SPMonitoredScope class resides in the Microsoft.SharePoint.Utilities

namespace. ● Example of wrapped code:

• A tip for the best and most effective use of SPMonitoredScope: ● All calls to external components, such as custom databases, external Web services, and so on,

should be wrapped with SPMonitoredScope. This will make it easier for administrators to identify

them as points of failure, and to isolate the problem quickly. • Sandbox Solutions are not able to be wrapped in SPMonitoredScope

• Measured statistics are written to the ULS logs as well as to the Developer

Dashboard.

• There are a few limitations for using SPMonitoredScope. ● Only calls to SharePoint databases are captured.

● Only the code wrapped with SPMonitoredScope that resides on the front-end Web server appears

on the Developer Dashboard. Code that executes on application servers only displays the

SPMonitoredScope information in the ULS logs of the computer that the code is running on.

• Create custom monitors by adding ISPScopedPerformanceMonitor to the

current SPMonitoredScope

Configurable ULS Logs

Flood Protection

Developer Dashboard

DEMO

• Web Analytics • In Central Admin

– Administrative Report Library – Search Admin Reports

– Health Reports -Slowest Pages & Top Active Users

– Break down by Web Application

– Traffic, Search Inventory

• Configurable ULS Logs

One Database to rule them all:

The Logging database

• What can it log?

• How do I tell it to start logging?

• How do I get the information out?

• Are there tools out there to help me see the data more easily? ● BDC models

● SQL Views

● CodePlex Projects • Are there performance implications?

SQL Views

CodePlex Projects

http://SPFLogger.codeplex.com

NTEventLog in SPFLogger

NTEvent Analytics in SPFLogger

ULSTraceView in SPFLogger

TimerJob Log in SPFLogger

TimerJob Analytics in SPFLogger

Handy Reference Information

• Useful Stuff

• Jason’s info http://www.sharepointlonghorn.com

jase@sharepointlonghorn.com

@sharepointlhorn

• Corne’s info http://www.cjvandyk.com/blog

c@crayveon.com

@cjvandyk

• Todd Carter’s info @toddca

http://www.todd-carter.com/

• Russ Maxwell’s Blog http://blogs.msdn.com/b/russmax

• Microsoft References

● SPMonitoredScope Class

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.sharepoint.utilities.spmonitoredscope(office.14).aspx

● Using SPMonitoredScope Class http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff512758.aspx

• Download links http://spflogger.codeplex.com

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