# \[App\]\[Pro\] PaperTrails Log - Advanced Logging and SysLog **URL:** \ **Category:** Apps\ **Tags:** app, official, tools\ **Created:** [August 14, 2018, 9:50pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-papertrails-log-advanced-logging-and-syslog/40 "2018-08-14T21:50:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![tlangelaar](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/tlangelaar/32/10980_2.png) [@tlangelaar](https://community.homey.app/u/tlangelaar)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2021, 5:11pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-papertrails-log-advanced-logging-and-syslog/40/84 "2021-05-13T17:11:41Z")
As far as I’ve seen in the syslog, the first word in your log line text ends up as the subject (not sure if that’s the same as keywords in your log setup). ---
**Author:** ![BartOverdevest](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/bartoverdevest/32/38783_2.png) [@BartOverdevest](https://community.homey.app/u/BartOverdevest)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2021, 9:38pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-papertrails-log-advanced-logging-and-syslog/40/85 "2021-05-13T21:38:30Z")
Correct. But if you put a $ in front of the first word, it is omitted from the log. The word in front of the subject (or whatever it is called) remains “Trail”. i would have expected (based on the config screen) that the application name “Trail” would be replaced with the word with the “$” ---
**Author:** ![ChrisG](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/chrisg/32/8825_2.png) [@ChrisG](https://community.homey.app/u/ChrisG)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2021, 5:54am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-papertrails-log-advanced-logging-and-syslog/40/86 "2021-06-06T05:54:03Z")
After successfully connecting the PaperTrails app to my Qnap syslog server, I am looking for two applications to evaluate the message remotely. First, a terminal/console app that I can use during development (vscode) to analyze the issues. And secondly a tiny web app to have an overview of my system on daily use ? Can someone help me ? ---
**Author:** ![ChrisG](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/chrisg/32/8825_2.png) [@ChrisG](https://community.homey.app/u/ChrisG)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2021, 6:07am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-papertrails-log-advanced-logging-and-syslog/40/88 "2021-06-07T06:07:17Z")
I know that, but that’s just the server, what I’m looking for is the web app for the visualization. ---
**Author:** ![Arjan-21](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/arjan-21/32/27181_2.png) [@Arjan-21](https://community.homey.app/u/Arjan-21)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2021, 1:44pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-papertrails-log-advanced-logging-and-syslog/40/89 "2021-07-21T13:44:10Z")
I’ve some problems with papertrails, multiple times every day I get a pause symbol and papertrails stopped working. After a reboot of the app it works again. I’ve made a flow to restart papertrails every night, but unfortunately I’ve got the same problem. The problem started with homey v7 or 7.0.1. Is there a way to fix this? Homey early 2019 Homey V7.1.0 App V6.8.0.743 Papertrails V0.6.3 ---
**Author:** ![Jorgen\_SQ](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/jorgen_sq/32/34037_2.png) [@Jorgen\_SQ](https://community.homey.app/u/Jorgen_SQ)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2021, 2:30pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-papertrails-log-advanced-logging-and-syslog/40/90 "2021-07-21T14:30:29Z")
What an awesome app! I’ve implemented the connection to [my.papertrailapp.com](http://my.papertrailapp.com), and things are showing up in /events when I am using the flow-cards. However, if I am using the functionality in homeyScript to post a log-event, it only shows up on the log-screen of the app itself. Is this a bug / missing feature, or am I configuring something wrong? I have selected the “Enable syslog for all log additions” option. ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Kawa](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/peter_kawa/32/173848_2.png) [@Peter\_Kawa](https://community.homey.app/u/Peter_Kawa)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2021, 2:59pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-papertrails-log-advanced-logging-and-syslog/40/91 "2021-07-21T14:59:22Z")
Hi Arjan, it happened here too the other day. The cause in my case was a recent created flow, which triggers and logged every minute. Alongside all the other logs being written in the meantime, it was too much I think (every flow writes a log here). Homey decides to pause the app, to prevent Homey or other apps from going down; the criteria used are unknown to me. So when I removed the log card from the ‘1 minute flow’ the ‘pause problem’ was gone. ---
**Author:** ![Arjan-21](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/arjan-21/32/27181_2.png) [@Arjan-21](https://community.homey.app/u/Arjan-21)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2021, 6:42pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-papertrails-log-advanced-logging-and-syslog/40/92 "2021-07-21T18:42:00Z")
Thanks Peter, I’m gonna look for the flow that write allot of times. For me it’s the same, almost every flow have to note the flow name on papertrails. ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Kawa](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/peter_kawa/32/173848_2.png) [@Peter\_Kawa](https://community.homey.app/u/Peter_Kawa)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2021, 4:12pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-papertrails-log-advanced-logging-and-syslog/40/93 "2021-08-10T16:12:43Z")
Hello Geurt, **EDIT** Everything is OK again since 3AM. Homey was yesterday evening at 7PM soft rebooted by my. ![papertrails_ok](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/uploads/athom/original/3X/8/9/893a9577f35068b473d4a8bc242f388974ae8247.png) * * * Papertrails suddenly gets paused every time the last (half) hour, I can’t find or think of what I’ve changed. The memory useage of PT goes up to 130MB’s. I took the liberty of sending a crash report (although it did not “crash”). Diag.ID: 52cd088a-e012-49e2-95e8-81fdeddc91cf ![papertrails_paused](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/uploads/athom/original/3X/6/4/64c3954977b2f5e83f5ce26a18009b6537a05a3a.jpeg) Insights: 24h: ![papertrails130MB](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/uploads/athom/original/3X/c/2/c2e8cd035dda3c6d3ce743937a08e1899ff7510e.png) Month: ![papertrails130MB-maand](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/uploads/athom/original/3X/5/9/59de61e9a2ebb7fdd585213cbf2ed4227d4516d0.png) Thanks for this great app and no hurries. Peter ---
**Author:** ![Henk\_Renting](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/henk_renting/32/87634_2.png) [@Henk\_Renting](https://community.homey.app/u/Henk_Renting)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2021, 9:16am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-papertrails-log-advanced-logging-and-syslog/40/94 "2021-10-02T09:16:39Z")
Any news yet on adding the THEN description to ELSE flowcards when adding them by the Papertrails website, @Dijker? Sorry for asking again; it’s just that the app (and site) is so damn helpfull… 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Kawa](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/peter_kawa/32/173848_2.png) [@Peter\_Kawa](https://community.homey.app/u/Peter_Kawa)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2021, 12:00pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-papertrails-log-advanced-logging-and-syslog/40/95 "2021-10-02T12:00:27Z")
Doesn’t this work, Henk? ![Screenshot_20211002-135939_Chrome](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/uploads/athom/original/3X/7/6/76581db58f4df8871a0936f69fc21c7517d506d7.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![Henk\_Renting](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/henk_renting/32/87634_2.png) [@Henk\_Renting](https://community.homey.app/u/Henk_Renting)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2021, 12:14pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-papertrails-log-advanced-logging-and-syslog/40/96 "2021-10-02T12:14:16Z")
No, in the ELSE Papertrailscard, THEN is written. ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/uploads/athom/original/3X/0/f/0f239aeca2ee9cc5219477791e22fbd20b2713ce.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Kawa](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/peter_kawa/32/173848_2.png) [@Peter\_Kawa](https://community.homey.app/u/Peter_Kawa)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2021, 1:43pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-papertrails-log-advanced-logging-and-syslog/40/97 "2021-10-02T13:43:20Z")
Ah, I see! Does this work? Prefix for Then: [leave empty] Prefix for Else: [ELSE] ---
**Author:** ![Henk\_Renting](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/henk_renting/32/87634_2.png) [@Henk\_Renting](https://community.homey.app/u/Henk_Renting)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2021, 4:25pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-papertrails-log-advanced-logging-and-syslog/40/98 "2021-10-02T16:25:44Z")
No, it still adds THEN cards in both THEN and ELSE. Are you a contributor to this website then? Of should @Dijker solve this? ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Kawa](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/peter_kawa/32/173848_2.png) [@Peter\_Kawa](https://community.homey.app/u/Peter_Kawa)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2021, 5:03pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-papertrails-log-advanced-logging-and-syslog/40/99 "2021-10-02T17:03:37Z")
I’m just trying to help, only @dijker can fix it if it’s a bug. ---
**Author:** ![Arjan-21](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/arjan-21/32/27181_2.png) [@Arjan-21](https://community.homey.app/u/Arjan-21)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2021, 10:45pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-papertrails-log-advanced-logging-and-syslog/40/100 "2021-10-02T22:45:49Z")
I’d the same issue a while ago with the pause and high use of memory (don’t know or it was up to 130). There where a few flows (Transitions of multiple lights in the whole house) written down every second a new line. Deleting the Papertrails card solved in this flow for me solved the problem ---
**Author:** ![greenwell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/82dd89/32.png) [@greenwell](https://community.homey.app/u/greenwell)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2021, 3:08pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-papertrails-log-advanced-logging-and-syslog/40/101 "2021-11-07T15:08:46Z")
Hi Peter, did you ever find a fix for this? Its happening to me all the time without any clear logic. I’ve spaced out all my scripts to execute every 10/60 mins with delays between each. It runs great for a while and then out of the blue it fails every 5 - 10 mins. The Pause is triggered by the memory shooting to 100+ MB but there doesnt seem to be clear reason as to why it would work for hours at 20-25 MB and then shoot up. ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Kawa](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/peter_kawa/32/173848_2.png) [@Peter\_Kawa](https://community.homey.app/u/Peter_Kawa)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2021, 12:14am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-papertrails-log-advanced-logging-and-syslog/40/102 "2021-11-08T00:14:21Z")
Hi Greenwell, it didn’t occur anymore. Can you filter out any ‘machine-gun’ like log write actions? It seems related I think. ![Screenshot_20211108-011136_Chrome](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/uploads/athom/original/3X/5/0/50e32d497b5443c422786b67435cd46fb7614166.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![greenwell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/82dd89/32.png) [@greenwell](https://community.homey.app/u/greenwell)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2021, 8:59am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-papertrails-log-advanced-logging-and-syslog/40/103 "2021-11-11T08:59:39Z")
Thanks Peter. I managed to calm things down substancially. After checking I didnt have any flows executing ever 1 sec but I had a flow per data object. When I bundled them all into one flow things improved a lot. ---
**Author:** ![rogerthn](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/rogerthn/32/31010_2.png) [@rogerthn](https://community.homey.app/u/rogerthn)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2021, 5:49pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-papertrails-log-advanced-logging-and-syslog/40/104 "2021-11-30T17:49:18Z")
I do have a similar issue. PaperTrails log Add to the log is OK using flow-cards. However, trying from HomeyScript only shows up on the log-screen of the app itself. PaperTrails to syslog has proven to be very useful, hence. Thank You for PaperTrails! [Previous page](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-papertrails-log-advanced-logging-and-syslog/40.md?page=4) [Next page](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-papertrails-log-advanced-logging-and-syslog/40.md?page=6)