Aspire Index Auditing is a feature aimed to help administrators keep track of all content source actions and search engine indexes in order to identify possible differences and problems between both of them.
Index Auditing consists of three components:
On this page:
If you're interested in learning more, here's a recording of the Tech Talk on the Performance and Auditing Tech Talk along with the Performance and Auditing Tech Talk presentation.
By default, every content source will log every action done for each of the documents crawled, to disable it go to the Advanced Properties in the content source configuration and uncheck the Enable Auditing option.
The actions that are being logged are:
The document was sent to be processed to the workflow as an add
The document was sent to be processed to the workflow as an update
The document was sent to be processed to the workflow as a delete
The document was found as not changed, no further processing was done for it
The document was excluded by index pattern configuration, no further processing was done for it
The document finished the workflow successfully
The document finished the workflow with an error
The document was terminated by a workflow rule
The processing batch finished successfully
The processing batch finished with error
Step 1: To see the audit logs of any crawls from the Aspire UI, open the content source statistics, and click View Audit Logs:
Step 2: After you click on View Audit Logs, the following page will be displayed:
The auditing log files for a search engine are generated via index dumps. Only these publishers are able to create index dumps:
To dump an index and compare it you have to:
All publisher and content source audit files are located at {aspire-distribution-home}/audit.