Is it recommended to enable Usage Tracking in Production ??

Hi,
Just a quick question - Have anyone turned on Usage Tracking in Production? if so at what level ?
OBIEE 64 bit 11g - 11.1.1.5.0
OS - Linux 64 bit
Cherrish Vaidiyan

Hi,
We have enabled the usuage tracking to track down the users usuage. And often rectifying the issues by setting the logging level to 7.
But remembe, until and unless its required (in case to note the performance of the application for some long running queries).
Though query logging has immeasurable development value, do not use this for regular production users as the runtime logging cost is extremely high. Every log item is flushed to the disk, which in turn hurts query response. Also, note that the query log files are not created on per user or query basis, there is only one query log per OBIEE server and it would have exclusive lock on the log file, which kills concurrent performance. The log file is NQQuery.log which resides in OracleBI Directory.
Regards
MuRam

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