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I recently installed the community version of neo4j on a linux server. Now I'm trying to verify queries that are running remotely but I can't seem to find any sort of transaction log. Most parameters I find are referencing 2.3 configurations (which have changed) and everything I've read about 3.0 seems to indicate transaction logs are enabled by default. Yet in the log directory, I do not see 'query.log'.

I've tried enabling http and gc logging but neither of these are helpful as I cannot see the actual query that was executed.

Is this something simply unavailable in the community version?

Matt Viss
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  • http://neo4j.com/docs/operations-manual/current/#transaction-logs Talks about transaction logs like I should be seeing them by default. – Matt Viss May 19 '16 at 13:53

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Cypher queries logging can be enabled with a single configuration value, to be set in conf/neo4j.conf

dbms.logs.query.enabled=true

If you want to log also the query parameters, you can add a second setting : 

dbms.logs.query.parameter_logging_enabled=true

The first setting will create a logs/query.log with log entries like 

2016-04-29 18:03:31.679+0000 INFO  86 ms: server-session        http    192.168.1.220   /db/data/transaction - CREATE (n {props}) RETURN n - {props: {name: My Node}}

As a reference, there is the operations manual as stated in one of the comments, or the released today neo4j knowledge base :

http://neo4j.com/blog/faq/

Christophe Willemsen
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