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ULS stands for Unified Logging Service. Once the log viewer is installed and opened, it will ask for the log file location from which the log files should be picked up. Specify the log folder path and click on OK. This will load the logs into the ULS log viewer and we can easily browse through it to isolate the issues.
How do I view SharePoint ULS logs?
Start -> Run and then enter eventvwr and click on Ok. This will open the Event Viewer window. It has a separate section for SharePoint with a name as Windows SharePoint Services. Apart from this, you can also check in the Windows Logs -> Applications section for errors.
By default, ULS logs are located in the SharePoint hive. For example, the default location for SharePoint 2016 ULS logs is %ProgramFiles%\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\16\Logs.
How do I use ULS viewer?
To monitor live ULS logs, Use File >> Open From >> ULS (Ctrl + U) option!…How to get the detailed error message using ULS Viewer?
- To start with, Download the ULS Viewer tool to your SharePoint Web front-end server.
- Open ULS Viewer application.
- Select log file(s) based on the time stamp from the error page.
How do I view ULS logs?
To monitor live ULS logs, Use File >> Open From >> ULS (Ctrl + U) option!
What is ULS viewer?
ULS Viewer is a Windows application that provides a simplified view of ULS log files in SharePoint 2013 that supports aggregation, filtering, sorting, highlighting, append, and more.
If you want to see a particular log, it’s just as easy. Click File –> Open From –> File. It defaults to the LOGS directory, and browse the list to find the ULS log file you want. You can see the date/time, process, product and category, severity level, Correlation (remember that?) and a detailed message of each event.