Monitoring and analyzing dataflow execution

When you execute the job, Data Services populates relevant execution information into three log files: the trace, monitor, and error logs. In later chapters, we will take a closer look at the configuration parameters available at the job level in order to gather more detailed information regarding job execution. Meanwhile, in this recipe, we will spend some time analyzing the monitor log file, which logs processing information from inside the dataflow components.

Getting ready

For simplicity, we will use the second dataflow from the recipe Using the Table_Comparison transform created for detailed explanation of the flow of the data before and after it passes the Table_Comparison transform object:

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