You can define the level of event logging that you want your OpenEdge application to support by using the Event Level Environment Variable (EVTLEVEL), or the Event Level startup parameter (-evtlevel).

The table below lists valid event level values.

Table 1. Event level values
Value Description
None No events are written to the event log.
Brief Messages defined as Error and Warning messages are written to the event log.
Normal Messages defined as Error and Warning messages are written to the event log. In addition, any message that is normally written to the log file (.lg) is also written to the Event Log. This is the default.
Full Every message generated is written to the Event Log. Any messages generated using the Message Statement are also written to the log file.