Dashboard: job sessions and their logs

What the Dashboard shows

The Dashboard lists every job session — every time a job has run — with its status, its start and end, and its session id. Each session has a log: how the job ran, step by step, with the reports embedded in it. The logs are kept in the repository database.

Open a session and its log

Double-click a session on the Dashboard. The job definition opens, and the session's log loads on its Log tab.

Delete job sessions

A session's log stays in the repository until the session is deleted. Delete the ones you no longer need:

On the Dashboard — select one session, several or all of them, and delete them.
In an open job — use Delete on its Log tab to delete the session shown.

Deleting is a soft delete

The session disappears from the Dashboard at once; SMART Migration then purges its data from the repository in the background. With many logs, the purge can take a considerable time. The space it frees is reused for new logs, but the database files on disk keep their size until the database is shrunk — see Shrink the database files.

Keep the repository within its space

On SQL Server 2025 Express the repository holds 50 GB — the logs of about 1 million files. Delete logs that are no longer needed as a matter of routine, and act when the jobs warn that 20 % of the space is left: once the database is full, nothing runs, not even the IDE, and the Dashboard can no longer be used to delete anything. What is left then: When the repository is full.

With the Nextcloud app or the Microsoft Teams app, the logs of runs that complete successfully are purged automatically. The runs with errors keep their log for troubleshooting; look at the Dashboard weekly, or every other week, and delete them once the errors are dealt with.