I want to know that why audit,auditlog and history logs files are being used as i din't find anything in these files in my system.
Can anybody help me to understand the usage of these log files?
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All of those three log files (audit.log, auditlog.log and history.log) are default AEM log files that are created out of the box when you start an AEM instance.
audit.log
This log file is used by JackRabbit to log changes to the repository. By default this log file is set to log level info. As far as I can tell there is not much logging going on at this level. Because of that your audit.log seems to be empty. If you set this log file to log level debug you will see log messages every time you make changes to the repository. For example if you add a component to a page, delete a page etc.
Example log entry:
09.04.2017 15:38:58.429 [admin] [session-2076087] Adding node [/content/myproject/mypage/jcr:content/parsys/mycomponent]
Here I added the component mycomponent to the page mypage. It will also log every property that was added to such a node etc.
auditlog.log
I was not able to find any information about this log file. As far as I can tell this log file logs messages for classes of this package com.adobe.granite.audit. Even setting the log level of this logger to debug did not create any messages.
history.log
This log file will contain high level logs about the things your editors do. It will for example log if a editor views or edits a page:
09.04.2017 15:38:36 VIEW admin [/content/myproject/mypage] [cq:Page]
09.04.2017 15:38:58 EDIT admin [/content/myproject/mypage] [cq:Page]
This log is probably only relevant on author instances.
