Access logs are a good way of finding out who is doing what in your JIRA instance. In this recipe, we will see how we can turn on access logging in JIRA.
The list of users who are currently accessing JIRA can be found under the Administration | System | Security | User sessions menu. But if you need more detailed information about who is doing what, access logging is the way to go.
Enabling access logs can be done via the administration screen by going to Administration | System | Troubleshooting and Support | Logging & Profiling, as shown in the following screenshot:
We can turn on HTTP access logs using the Enable option, as shown in the above screenshot. There is an additional option to mark these access logs with an optional message and to send those logs to a new file. This is very useful for detecting logs when we are troubleshooting an issue.
These logs are disabled by default and, if enabled via the UI, they will be disabled again on the...