Best Way to View Log files from Tableau Desktop or Server

We have a really great way to view the Log files from Desktop or Server without just looking into the Plain text. It makes us very difficult to read the SQL that's happening on the back end. 

There are some better ways and cleaner ways to view information from the logs which are explained below:

Tableau Log Viewer:

Tableau Log Viewer is cross-platform tool for quickly glancing over Tableau log files. This tool comes with a simple interface that has a single purpose of making it easy to quickly glance over Tableau log files.

Using this tool we can get the below benefits:

• Tableau log file representation in easy to read columnar format
• Live capture from Tableau's log files
• Advanced event search, filtering and highlighting
• Query syntax highlighting
• Compatible with Windows, Mac and, most likely, Linux

This tool is very simple to use launch the application and drag'n'drop Tableau's log file. Both Tableau Desktop and [most] Tableau Server log files are supported.Inorder to get more details please have look at wiki to get more details on the features and usage of TLV. If you want to download the software you can go to this link https://github.com/tableau/tableau-log-viewer.

As log files are a form of a json file. We can make use of a reader / editor to treat each entry as a complete file and to simultaneously open each entry; failing this, something simple like jsonedit allows for individual entry.

The best way that i have used is to read the log files with the help of sublime text editor. In sublime, we have a option where we can change the syntax highlighting to JSON via the menu path View --> Syntax --> JavaScript --> JSON. In this way we can format the logfile to place each new stamp into a separate line.

Another way of handling log files to retreive them in a readable format by using Notepad++ by enabling JSON Viewer Plugin. You can use some of the parameters to get it place in the new lines.

If you want to find specifically any SQL query then make use of performance recording.

There are some other tools which we can make use of them . Please refer to below Links:

https://ajax.sys-con.com/node/3141925