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How do I find the debug log?
To view a debug log, from Setup, enter Debug Logs in the Quick Find box, then select Debug Logs. Then click View next to the debug log that you want to examine. Click Download to download the log as an XML file. Debug logs have the following limits.
How do I enable debug logs for Salesforce?
How to turn on the Salesforce debug log
- In Salesforce, go to Setup > Administration Setup > Monitoring > Debug Logs.
- On the Debug Logs page, in the Monitored Users section, click the New button.
- On the Add Users To Debug Logs page, click the magnifying glass icon to find the user you wish to monitor.
How can I get a Debug log for the sites guest user?
Normally, you can put debug monitoring on a user by name to see the details on the error they’re getting (especially for the non-descript Error Loading a Visualforce Page). But when you are trying to debug a site page, how do you get a debug log for the guest user?
Is there a log size limit for guest users?
We had the best of intentions: All your public site visitors share one guest user license. Thus, when you enable logging for the guest user, the visitors’ collective activities can fill your debug logs quickly, hitting the log-size limit and causing log truncation. Sadly, people didn’t like the Winter ’17 change.
Setting cookies is complicated, and the change made collecting debug logs for public users’ asynchronous activity impossible. We’ve seen the error of our ways. Your public users no longer need a debug_logs browser cookie to trigger logging. This change applies to both Lightning Experience and Salesforce Classic.
To do this, under Guest user access restrictions, select Guest users have limited access to properties and membership of directory objects settings or Guest user access is restricted to properties and memberships of their own directory objects. Modern SharePoint sites use Microsoft 365 Groups to control site access.