# Read client logger data with an external tools

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/read-client-logger-data-with-an-external-tools/9939>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [April 21, 2015, 5:29pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/read-client-logger-data-with-an-external-tools/9939 "2015-04-21T17:29:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![mazeyrat](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/mazeyrat/32/10955_2.png) [@mazeyrat](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/mazeyrat)\
**Post date:** [April 21, 2015, 5:29pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/read-client-logger-data-with-an-external-tools/9939/1 "2015-04-21T17:29:29Z")

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I would like to read vision client’s logger data with an external tools.  
Where is located the file for the client ?

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**Author:** ![dave.fogle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/43a26b/32.png) [@dave.fogle](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/dave.fogle)\
**Post date:** [April 22, 2015, 4:34pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/read-client-logger-data-with-an-external-tools/9939/2 "2015-04-22T16:34:03Z")

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Unfortunately the client doesn't log to any external files so there isn't currently a way that this can be accomplished.

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**Author:** ![mazeyrat](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/mazeyrat/32/10955_2.png) [@mazeyrat](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/mazeyrat)\
**Post date:** [July 18, 2019, 10:48am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/read-client-logger-data-with-an-external-tools/9939/3 "2019-07-18T10:48:28Z")

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could be a solution

> [@Add a RollingFileAppender for vision client logs to ease debug in client scope with external log viewer tools](http://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/add-a-rollingfileappender-for-vision-client-logs-to-ease-debug-in-client-scope-with-external-log-viewer-tools/26659):
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> Vision console is not very user friendly for logs analyse in CLIENT scope. So you can add a RollingFileAppender for all client’s logs produced with code like : logger = system.util.getLogger("myLogger") if logger.isDebugEnabled(): logger.debug("Hello, world!") (print message are not concerned and stay only in the console) In order to route the logs to others files in parallel with the vision console, you can add a call to startLogClient() in your client startup script. to stopLogClient() …