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How to collect traces for troubleshooting Kaspersky Endpoint Security for Windows

Latest update: January 25, 2024 ID: 14364
 
 
 
 
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When creating a request to technical support, you should attach a trace file. The trace files are used by technical support for diagnostic purposes. They contain all steps of application command execution written to the file, which allows to detect the step on which an error occurs.

How to collect traces for troubleshooting Kaspersky Endpoint Security

  1. Open Kaspersky Endpoint Security for Windows.
  2. In the main application window, click The ‘Support’ icon..
  3. Click Support Tools.
  4. Switch on the Enable application tracing toggle.
  5. In the Tracing drop-down list, select one of the options: 
    • Write to a single file, to enable tracing.
    • With rotation, to enable tracing and limit the number and size of trace files.
      Specify the maximum number of traces and the maximum size of each file.
  6. Select the trace level:
    • Critical (100),
      logs critical errors only.
    • Troubleshooting (300),
      logs all errors and warnings.
    • Important (400),
      logs all errors and warnings as well as additional information messages.
    • Normal (500),
      logs all errors and warnings, as well as additional information messages and normal operational data. This level is used by default.
    • Low (600),
      logs all available messages.

Ask a support engineer which tracing level to set. If the trace level is not indicated, we recommend to select Normal (500).

  1. Click Save.

Adjusting tracing in Kaspersky Endpoint Security for Windows.

  1. Restart Kaspersky Endpoint Security for Windows and reproduce the problem.
  2. In the Support Tools window, switch off the Enable application tracing toggle and click Save.

By default, the trace files will be created in the hidden folder: 

  • For versions 11.6.0–11.9.0: %ProgramData%\Kaspersky Lab\KES\Traces
  • For versions 11.10.0 and above: %ProgramData%\Kaspersky Lab\KES.<The product line number>\Traces 
To access the folder, turn on the display of hidden files and folders on Windows using the instructions.

Trace files have the following format: KES.<The product line number>_<Creation date>_<Creation time>_<PID>.<Trace file type>.log.

Trace files in Kaspersky Endpoint Security for Windows.

 
 
 
 
 
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