Investigate actions in the system

There may be situations where you need to investigate certain actions within the system. For example, this could be due to performance issues, or prompted by a users experiencing issues. 

There are two main ways to investigate issues:

• Using system logs
• By creating reports using the log source

Using system logs

Site Administrators can set parameters to review logs showing actions taken on the system by going to Quick-access menu > Server > Logs. You can also view live logs, to see what is currently happening on the system, by going to Quick-access menu > Server > Live logs. Both of these logs give Site Administrators the ability to review actions from across the system.

Site Administrators can also configure settings for the standard logs and manage any additional log store plugins via Quick-access menu > Plugins > Logging. 

If you are using Totara Learn then Trainers can access similar logs (on a course-only basis) from the Administration block on each course. 

You can also create a custom log report to report on exactly the details you want.

Next steps

• Create a custom log report
• Core log stores
• Course reports
• Create a user report
• Edit an embedded report