The Audit level controls the volume and verbosity of auditing that the application generates. When setting the audit level, the following considerations should be taken into account:
A low audit level will generate very few messages and will therefore have minimal impact on the applications performance. However, it will be of little use when attempting to resolve a problem.
A high audit level will provided a detailed trace of the applications activity (useful for resolving problems), but it will generate large volumes of log files and will tend to slow the application execution down (as the application is forced to spend a larger percentage of it's time performing file I/O).
Tip: For normal operation it is recommend that an Audit level of 2 is used.
Note: The Audit level applies only to the Sapphire Collector and the stExporter (which inherits the audit level set within the Collector).