View Crawl Logs

Crawl Logs provides updates on crawler progress, including information, warnings, and errors, depending on whether your content source is being crawled. The updates are of two kinds:

• If your content source is being crawled, Crawl Logs shows real-time updates.

• If your content source is not being crawled, Crawl Logs shows what was indexed in the last crawl.

Historical Logs

Crawl Logs data is retained for a maximum of 15 days; logs from 14 days ago are accessible, but logs from 16 days ago are not.

View Crawl Logs

1. Navigate to Content Sources > View Logs.

   

2. A pop-up window with crawl logs appears, divided into four sections: Preparation, Crawling, Indexing, and Completion.

   • Preparation covers all pre-crawl processes.

   • Crawling covers the actual discovery of documents.

   • Indexing captures updates to the index.

   • Completion is when the new index becomes searchable.

   

3. To close the Crawl Logs window, click . Crawling cannot be stopped during the Indexing and Completion stages.

Note: You can copy the crawl logs to clipboard or download them using the Download Logs button.