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P4 Server Administration Documentation | 2025.2

# Logging

## Overview

The three types of logging are the standard log, the P4AUDIT log, and the structured logs.

### Standard log

By default, P4 Server events are written to a log file. The location of the log can be changed with the P4LOG environment variable. The standard log is designed to be human readable. To learn more, see Using P4LOG.

### P4AUDIT log

If the P4AUDIT environment variable is set, the audit log records each occurrence in which each user access an archive file Versioned files that users submitted to a depot. with a command such as p4 sync or p4 diff. To learn more, see Auditing user file access.

### Structured logs

Unlike the standard log, the structured logs are in a structured format, such as .csv, contain more details than the standard log, and are typically interpreted with the aid of tools for data analysis. To learn more, see Structured logs.

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