We understand that good workflow requires rich and comprehensive workflow logs to be valuable. A workflow engine performs work according to a predefined process map. If you choose to use ProcessMaker I/O, you will need a way to understand exactly how your workflows were executed. We also think that you will want your logs to be fully searchable. In the most recent update of ProcessMaker.io, we added workflow logs to our API.
Logs API endpoints
We have added two endpoints to our API. Both use a GET Request. Here are the endpoints:
get listLogs - https://CHANGEME.api.processmaker.io/api/v1/logs/
get logSummary - https://CHANGEME.api.processmaker.io/api/v1/logs/summary
The Importance of Audit Logs and Good Search for Workflow Logs
Today’s international regulatory environment makes workflow logs even more important. GDPR legislation will go into effect in May 2018 throughout Europe. This new legislation will mean a lot of changes for software vendors and data handlers. From a workflow perspective, it will mean even more requirements for strong workflow event logging.
Management Interface
With our most recent update to ProcessMaker I/O we have also improved our instance management interface. If you follow our getting started blog for developers to deploy some of our sample Github code, you will see that we have made it easier to manage users and see running processes. You will also notice a new section called workflow logs. We are logging everything in ProcessMaker I/O. Our workflow logs includes the following level of detail:
