Logging for Planning Analytics as a Service

After you provision Planning Analytics as a Service to add log management capabilities to your IBM Cloud® architecture, you can enable platform logs to view and analyze Planning Analytics as a Service logs.

Platform logs

Platform logs are logs that are exposed by logging-enabled services and the platform in IBM Cloud. You must configure a Log Analysis instance in a region to monitor these logs.

For more information, see Configuring IBM Cloud platform logs.

Viewing logs

Planning Analytics as a Service services generate platform logs in the same region where they are available. You can view, monitor, and manage Planning Analytics as a Service logs through the IBM Log Analysis instance that is marked as platform logs in the region.

To launch the Log Analysis web UI to view these logs, see Navigating to the web UI.

For more information about the locations where Planning Analytics as a Service logs are available, see IBM Cloud services that generate IBM Log Analysis logs by location.

Fields per log type

Table 1 outlines the fields that are included in each log record:

Table 1. Log record fields
Field	Type	Description
`Thread ID`	Required	ID number of the thread in the Planning Analytics Engine that generated the logging event. Example: 2488
`Message Level`	Required	Severity level of the message being reported: DEBUG, INFO, WARN, ERROR, or FATAL
`Date and Time`	Required	Date and time the message was logged, reported in the format: yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm.ss,millisecond.
`messageID`	Required	ID of the log that is generated.
`TM1 Logger Name`	Required	Name of the Planning Analytics sub-component that generated the message or activity.
`Message Text`	Required	Pre-defined text message that describes the error or activity being reported.