Traces of TCM Search Indexer

Question

I'm trying to obtain traces of the TCM Search Indexer service, with the new Content Manager tracing tool but with no success.

I'm executing:

Start-TcmTracing -TraceFile C:\tridion\log\indexer.log -ProcessNames TcmSearchIndexer

to start tracing the service, the command returns me the Id of the tracing process, but no traces appear from that service.

If no -ProcessName is entered, then I can see traces of w3wp, TcmServiceHost, etc. but nothing from Search Indexer.

Is there any other modification needed to extract those traces? or simply the service is not working as expected?

Answer 1

we were just working a support ticket which requested us to do this to enable tracing for the search indexer. it doesn't log to a file, but to the screen.

1. Stop the SDL Web Content Manager Search Indexer service
2. Drop out to command prompt as administrator and navigate to ..sdlweb\bin
3. Type: TcmSearchIndexer.exe -d

Answer 2

By default, Start-TcmTracing collects trace messages marked as Public, Extension or External. It just happened that SearchIndexer in default setup doesn't execute any of such code. In order to see trace messages from indexer, set -TraceKeywords to 'All' (or 'Internal').