Activity logs
The key cms/tool/isActivityLogged records events within Brightspot. The events are sent to the Tomcat log file catalina.out.
The following table describes the attributes associated with this key.
| Attribute |
Description |
Valid values |
|---|---|---|
name |
Key for toggling on or off activity logging. |
cms/tool/isActivityLogged |
type |
Type of the value. |
java.lang.Boolean |
value |
Indicates if logging is enabled. |
true, false (default) |
The following snippet records events in the Tomcat log file.
<Environment name="cms/tool/isActivityLogged" type="java.lang.Boolean" value="true" override="false"/>
Brightspot's standard configuration provides entries for login/logout and publication events. The following table describes the fields in each entry.
| Login/logout events |
Publication events |
|---|---|
|
|
The following log entry describes a successful login event.
04-Feb-2021 16:31:41 INFO [http-nio-8080-exec-9] com.psddev.cms.tool.ToolActivity ToolAuthentication [userId:joe@brightspot.com, status:success, domain:172.28.128.14, ipAddress:172.28.128.1]
The following log entry describes a publication event for an article.
04-Feb-2021 16:36:24 INFO [http-nio-8080-exec-9] com.psddev.cms.tool.ToolActivity Published Article [id: 00000177-6ef9-decc-aff7-fefb03f10001, label: Washing iPhone ear buds] [user name: joe, id: 00000177-68da-d640-a9f7-69db41290000]