Enabling Verbose in SharePoint

Enabling Verbose in SharePoint

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We can enable the verbose in SharePoint using PowerShell and Central Administration

Using PowerShell commands to enable and disable verbose

For better practice use below command to generate new log file then enable verbose.

Step-1: go to SharePoint products and select “Management shell”

Open Management shell as “Administrator” and type New-SpLogFile

Step-2: Set log level to verbose

Set-SPLogLevel -TraceSeverity Verbose -EventSeverty Verbose

Step-3: Set log level back to default (After recreating the issue and collecting the logs set the log level back to default)

Set-SPLogLevel -TraceSeverity Medium
or 
Get-SPLogLevel | Clear-SPLogLevel

Using Central Admin to enable and disable verbose

1) Open your Central Administration

2) Click Monitoring and Click “Configure Diagnostic Logging”

3) Select “All Categories” and

Select “Verbose” for “Least critical event to report to the event log”

Select “Verbose” for “Least critical event to report to the event log”

4) Click "Ok".

5) After recreating the issue and collecting the logs set the log level back to default as mentioned below

Select “Reset to default” for “Least critical event to report to the event log”
Select “Reset to default” for “Least critical event to report to the trace log”