Power BI Report Server Log Files Administration

[datalearner]

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?

[kerrinhardy]

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 

[datalearner]

@Anonymous,  @v-yulgu-msft, @riccardomuti, @mgmeyer 
Can you please help us understand? 
I would greatly appreciate your knowledge, insight, or commments. Thank you!

[riccardomuti]

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]

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.

[Anonymous]

Up. Any answers to these questions?

[datalearner]

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

[messerjc]

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]

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