2 Replies Latest reply on Oct 17, 2017 5:14 AM by Kirstin Lyon

Server logs vs Postgres

Kirstin Lyon Oct 12, 2017 12:43 AM

I'm want to look in to creating an analysis of our server use - what is the difference between server logs and postgres?

Where does the data for the server logs come from?

One of the question I'd like to answer relates to number of queries and time taken to perform those queries.

I'm on server v 10.2

Thanks

Kirstin

1. Re: Server logs vs Postgres

lenaic.ridinger Oct 17, 2017 4:29 AM (in response to Kirstin Lyon)

Hi Kirstin Lyon,

You'll love this answer from Bill Lyons: Re: Data Source affecting performance - live or extract / published or non-published

I'm not sure about your second question though... they come from your data AND the servers performances depending on what you are looking for?
Or are you looking for the locations of the Tableau Server Log Files?

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2. Re: Server logs vs Postgres

Kirstin Lyon Oct 17, 2017 5:14 AM (in response to lenaic.ridinger)

Hi Lénaïc

This is pretty interesting.. but I think I phrased my question wrong..

What I'm going to be doing is creating a custom admin view based on how my users are interacting with reports. I know I can connect to Tableau postgres to find out what they have been up to (as well as a lot of other great insights), but I've also started to get access to tableau server log files. There seems to be some overlap, so I'm not sure which place is the best place to go.

I'm using Alteryx for ETL, so I can combine the two together, but I just wasn't sure of the differences.

Thanks
Kirstin
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