Logs and the Log Viewer

The Log Viewer tile

Show it with View > Log Viewer, or choose the Operator layout. It shows the newest 5000 lines of everything PBDispatch sees.

Control	What it does
Source tabs	All, Dispatcher, ProBoard, BinkP, Web, Toss, QWK. In a narrow tile they collapse into a drop-down.
Level chips	All, Warn+ and Errors. The level is taken from the words in the line.
Search box	Click it (or press Ctrl+F) and type. Every word must appear somewhere in the line, in any case. Esc clears it.
Follow / Paused	Follow keeps the newest line at the bottom. Scrolling up pauses it; scrolling back to the bottom resumes.
Export	Saves exactly the lines now shown, as a `.txt` or a `.csv` file.
Clear	Asks whether to archive the log files as well. See below.

Each line has a time, a level (INFO, WARN or ERROR, in blue, amber and red), the source and the message. The footer says “Showing N of M lines”.

Figure 1. The Log Viewer. IP addresses have been blurred.

Clear asks three ways:

Yes archives every log file, then clears the viewer. The files go to LOGS\Archive\<date_time>\ and archives older than 30 days are deleted. DOWNLOAD.LOG is not touched.
No clears only what the viewer shows. The files on disk stay as they are.
Cancel does nothing.

Tools > Rotate Logs Now does the same archive without touching the viewer. The first line of each fresh log says what was rotated.

These files are in the LOGS folder:

File	Holds
`PROBOARD.LOG`	What nodes do: logins, logoffs, errors.
`LOGINGUARD.LOG`	Failed logins from every service.
`UPDATE.LOG`	Program updates.
`DOWNLOAD.LOG`	One line for each finished download. It is consumed by PBUtil. See PBUtil.
`mailer.log`	Mail sessions.

Other programs write their own logs in LOGS as well.