Logs question

[A_Learner]

Hi,
What kind of parameters can get into logs for detailed logging?

How can I log the machine name, and the bot name into log parameters?

Is Log message is the activity to use?

Thank you,

[sonaliaggarwal47 (Sonali Aggarwal)]

Hi @A_Learner

There are 2 activities for logging both serve different purposes.

Please have a read on below LLM generated message to help you understand the difference better.

Feature	Log Message	Add Log Fields
Type	Text message	Structured key-value pairs (metadata)
Purpose	Log a message to output/log	Attach additional fields to all logs
Log Level	Required (Info, Warning, etc.)	No log level – just attaches data
Scope	One message only	Applies to all logs within scope
Use Case	Write what’s happening	Add context (e.g., Transaction ID)
Display in Orchestrator	Yes (as message)	Yes (as part of structured logs)

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When to Use Each?

• Use Log Message when you want to communicate what’s happening in the process.
• Use Add Log Fields when you want to add context (e.g., identifiers, variables) to your logs for tracking in Orchestrator or ElasticSearch.

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Hope this helps.

[ashokkarale]

@A_Learner

In initialisation state use Add Log Fields activity and add the machine name and bot name fields.

Now just use Log Message activity as it is we normally use it will log your message along with managing name and bot name in every log message.

[Anil_G (Anil Gorthi)]

@A_Learner

You can add any field that you want in log using add log fields..

what add log fields does it it would add the key and the data related to it in every log messages json till it comes to remove log fields

by default, message,timestamp,robotname etc will be in the log json. and message is where the log message activity message sits.. when you do add log fields , more fields or keys are added to this json and even those values are populated

so ideally when you do add log fields, it adds a fields with data you need but not in the message field

if you need in message field then in each log message you need to add them as input.Ideally log fields is a good way if you want it to be added and that can be used later in insights to group those messages together as well

Hope this helps

cheers

[prashant1603765 (Prashant Kumar)]

Hi @A_Learner

Just try to use Environment.MachineName for machine name. And use Invoke Code to get bot name with UiPath.Executor.WorkflowRuntime.GetRobotName(). Or try. Environment.UserName

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