7.18 Logging Configuration Metrics

Lists the Logging configuration metrics and provides a brief description of each.

Table 7.18 Logging Configuration Metrics

Name	Description
General Log Enabled	This option enables logging to the general query log, which contains entries that record client connections and SQL statements received from clients.
General Log File	The name of the general query log file.
Log Backward Compatible User Definitions Enabled	Whether to log the user_specification part of CREATE USER, ALTER USER, and GRANT statements in backward-compatible (pre-5.7.6) fashion
Log Error	Log errors and startup messages to this file.
Log Error Services	A list of semicolon-separated components to enable for error logging. The server executes components in the listed order.
Log Error Verbosity	This variable controls verbosity of the server in writing error, warning, and note messages to the error log.
Log Output	This option determines the destination for general query log and slow query log output.
Log Timestamps	This variable controls the timestamp time zone of error log messages, and of general query log and slow query log messages written to files.
Log Warnings	Print out warnings such as Aborted connection... to the error log.
SQL Log Disabled	If set to true, no logging is done to the general query log for this client.
Syslog Enabled	Whether to write error log output to syslog (on Unix and Unix-like systems) or Event Log (on Windows).
Syslog Facility	The facility for error log output written to syslog (what type of program is sending the message). This variable has no effect unless the log_syslog system variable is enabled.
Syslog Include Pid Enabled	Whether to include the server process ID in each line of error log output written to syslog. This variable has no effect unless the log_syslog system variable is enabled.
Syslog Tag	The tag to be added to the server identifier in error log output written to syslog. This variable has no effect unless the log_syslog system variable is enabled.