Health Check, Please
Log-ical Conclusions
Console-ation Prize
Identify Yourself!
100

Previously a plugin from the appmarket, health checks are now managed from here.

What is the admin console?

100

This log with a feline name captures nearly every action in the system, including startup sequences and fatal application errors.

What is tomcat-stdOut.log?

100

To ensure all interfaces follow the same color palette, this section of the Admin Console is used to set the default primary and accent colors for Tempo and Sites.

What is the branding tab?

100

When using LDAP, Appian connects to this specific type of directory service to verify user credentials and group memberships. 

What is active directory?

200

This tab of the health check shows information about different design, configuration and user experiences risks identified in the health check.

What is the details tab?

200

This log should be the first log you check when a user in production experiences a pink box.

What is design-errors.log?

200

You can't see through it, but you can use this Admin console tab to lock all basic users out of the environment.

What is the maintenance window?

200

This authentication method is a set of standards that govern communication between Appian and an identity provider.

What is SAML?

300

The health check can be used to show if too many of these, typically between user input tasks, are causing system slowness.

What is activity chaining?
300

This specific log captures the details of every user login, logout, and failed authentication attempt, essential for security auditing.

What is login-audit.csv?

300
Connect environments and configure other compare and deploy settings under this admin console tab.

What is infrastructure?

300

If using multiple SSO providers, you can set up unique these for each user type.

What is a sign-in page?

400

While there is no set limit, a design object with more than 100 of these is a medium risk, and more than 300 is a high risk.

What is a process node?

400

Each attempted download of a document or file is recorded in this log.

ile_attachment_downloads.csv

400

Check how often an expression is executed, as well as the average time it takes, under this admin console tab.

What is rule performance?

400

This modern authentication standard is built on top of OAuth 2.0 Protocol

What is OpenID Connect authentication?

500

This optional step in the health check process allows for system administrators to download the data collection before upload to MyAppian.

What is data review? 

500

If you have more than one server hosting Appian engines, configure which one contains the engine summary log by editing this XML file. 

What is appian-topology.xml?

500

If a Lead Developer needs to white-list a specific domain for use with an integration that does not have a standard signed certificate, they must add it to this list.

What is the Trusted server certificates?

500

This checkbox in the Admin Console allows Appian to create a new user account automatically if a valid SAML assertion is received for a user that doesn't exist yet.

What is Create user on login?

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