Play by Play: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Salesforce Logs but Were Afraid to Ask

Every Salesforce Admin and Developer must know about Logs, and in this course, you’ll learn everything you need to add to your toolkit for tackling any issue.

Play by Play is a series in which top technologists work through a problem in real-time, unrehearsed, and unscripted. In this course, Play by Play: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Salesforce Logs but Were Afraid to Ask, Christian Szandor Knapp and Don Robins take you on a grand tour of an essential, timeless topic - Salesforce Logs. They discuss questions like: What kind of Logs are there? How do you find out what is happening in an Org? How can you use Salesforce Logs and current tooling to fix an issue? And what makes Salesforce Logs different? They get hands-on with Trace Flags, the Analysis View, how to make efficient use of command-line tools, and introduce you to Apex Replay Debugging on your local machine. They discuss current limitations of the platform and show two approaches to how these limitations can be overcome with custom instrumentation.

• Course Overview 2mins
• Introduction and Setting the Stage 5mins
• What Are Salesforce “Logs”? 11mins
• Event Monitoring Essentials 8mins
• What’s in a Debug Log 22mins
• Managing Debug Logs 40mins
• Log Limits and Beyond - Instrumentation 21mins
• Summary and Recap 3mins