Windows application log
Reporting Services writes event messages to the Windows application log. You can use the message information written to the application log to find out about events that report server applications running on the local system generate.
View report server events
You can use the Event Viewer to view the log file and to filter the messages it contains. For more information about event messages, see Errors and events reference (Reporting Services). For more information about Windows application log or Event Viewer, see the Windows product documentation.
Reporting Services provides three event sources:
Report Server (Report Server Windows service)
Report Manager
Scheduling and Delivery Processor
Reporting Services doesn't provide a way to turn off application event logging for a report server or control which events are logged. The schema that describes report server event logging is fixed. You can't extend the schema to support custom events.
The following table describes the event types that the report server writes to the application event log.
| Event type | Description |
|---|---|
| Information | An event that describes a successful operation; for example, when the report server services start. |
| Warning | An event that indicates a potential problem; for example, low disk space. |
| Error | An event that describes a significant problem; for example, the service didn't start. |
| Success Audit | A security event that describes a successful sign in. |
| Failure Audit | An event that is logged when a sign in attempt fails. |