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Log Files

Log verbosity

Logging verbosity defines the detail level the log files include.

Critical warnings—Includes critical errors only (for example: Failed to start antivirus protection)

Errors—Records errors such as Error downloading file in addition to critical warnings

Warnings—Records critical errors and warning messages

Informative records—Records informative messages, including successful update messages, plus all records above

Diagnostic recordsIncludes information needed to fine-tune the program and all records above

Log Files Cleaning

Automatically delete records older than (days)—Log entries older than the specified days will be deleted automatically.

Log Files Optimization

Optimize log files automatically—When engaged, log files will be defragmented automatically if the fragmentation percentage is higher than the value specified in the If the number of unused records exceeds (%) field. All empty log entries are removed to improve performance and log processing speed. You can see this improvement when the logs contain a large number of entries.