# Logs

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User permission: Administration > Logs
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Click the Phocas menu button > **Administration** > **Logs**. By default, the **Logs** page displays a list of errors but you can change your view of the **Logs** page to quickly access specific types of logs.

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* **Audit**: Record of every impersonation session, who the actor was, and what actions they took. These logs are currently only available to Phocas staff. They can’t be purged like other logs.
* **Build**: Summary of the database builds, including the start and end time, status and failure reason, if applicable.
* **Error**: Summary of errors, including the time the error occurred, type of error, detail, URL browser. Click the link in the **Detail** column to view more information about an error.
* **Query**: Summary of queries, including the time the query was run, user, database, mode, dimension and period.
* **Subscription**: Summary of subscription activity, including the time, user, database, favorite name, type and email address subscribed.
* **Sync**: Summary of Sync events, including the time the event occurred, user, sync source, type and version of Phocas.

To manually refresh a log, for example, if you want to see results after running a process, click the **Refresh** button in the top left corner or F5 on your keyboard.

Administrators with special access can purge (delete) logs.

See also [Monitor individual user activity](https://docs.phocassoftware.com/administration/users/monitor-user-activity)&#x20;


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