Tableau Log Files

Applies to: Tableau Advanced Management

Tableau Resource Monitoring Tool agents monitor the Tableau log files in near real time and send log messages to the RMT Server for processing and reporting.

Below is a list of the specific Tableau log files that are monitored.

All directory paths are relative to the Tableau Server data directory. By default, this is located at: %PROGRAMDATA%\Tableau\Tableau Server\data\tabsvc

Directory File Name
logs\backgrounder backgrounder-*.log
logs\httpd *.log
logs\vizportal vizportal-*.log
logs\dataserver dataserver_*.txt
logs\vizqlserver vizqlserver_*.txt
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