ULS trace log reaching maximum size - Event 8094 (SharePoint 2010 Products)

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Applies to: SharePoint Server 2010

Alert Name:   ULS trace log reaching maximum size

Event ID:   8094

Summary:   The SharePoint 2010 Tracing Service (SPTracev4) is used by Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010 to manage trace message output. When trace logging is enabled, administrators can specify the path used to store the trace log file. This log file is used by many applications that are built on SharePoint Foundation 2010. This event occurs when the configured log file location is low on space. It serves as a warning that logging may stop soon unless more space is made available or the space allocated to logging is increased.

Symptoms:   This event appears in the event log: Event ID: 8094 Description: Trace logs are reaching to the configured storage limit [configured limit]. Please increase the maximum storage settings. Otherwise, older files will be deleted once the limit is reached.

Cause:   The configured log file location has insufficient free disk space for logging, or the maximum space allocated for logging is too low.

Resolution:   Increase the space limit for log files

  1. Verify that the user account that is performing this procedure is a member of the Farm Administrators group.

  2. On the Central Administration Home page, click Monitoring.

  3. On the Monitoring page, in the Reporting section, click Configure diagnostic logging.

  4. In the Trace Log section, in the Maximum storage space for Trace Logs (GB) box, type a larger number of gigabytes (GB) you want to allocate to the log files. When log files reach this size on disk, older log files will automatically be deleted

  5. Click OK.

Resolution:   Change the location of the log files

  1. Verify that the user account that is performing this procedure is a member of the Farm Administrators group.

  2. On the Central Administration Home page, click Monitoring.

  3. On the Monitoring page, in the Reporting section, click Configure diagnostic logging.

  4. In the Trace Log section, in the Path box, type the new location for the log file on a drive or partition that has sufficient disk space.

  5. Click OK.

Resolution:   Free disk space

  1. Use the Disk Cleanup tool to free disk space where the trace log files are stored.

  2. Verify that the tracing service has sufficient disk space to write the log file.

  3. If the trace logging service has insufficient disk space to write the log files, delete the contents of the Temp folders on the drive.