The PHP error log (php-errors.log) records any issues that occur during the PHP processing portion of a page load. Issues reported here are usually caused by an application’s code, configuration, or content. The log records issues with requests from both browsers and the command line, unlike the FPM error log, which records infrastructure-level issues with the management of PHP processes from web requests only.

Custom PHP scripts that execute separately from Drupal must include the Acquia require line, which sets the logging location, in order for errors to be logged to the PHP error log.

For a list of log files handled by Cloud Platform, including information about accessing the log files, log file retention, and their locations, see About Cloud Platform logging. You can also review information about how to stream PHP error log entries in real time from your browser.

Parsing the log file

The following line is a representative example of the data written into your website’s PHP error log:

[04-Jan-2017 14:29:27 America/New_York] PHP Fatal error:  Allowed memory
size of 367001600 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 352591872 bytes) in
/full/path/to/module/notification.php on line 504
request_id="v-0000zzzz-d2b4-0000-b3a4-129zzzzd8266"

Each of the items in the PHP error log is noted in the following table, along with its description:

PHP error logs

[04-Jan-2017 14:29:27 America/New_York] PHP Fatal error:  Allowed memory
size of 367001600 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 352591872 bytes) in
/full/path/to/module/notification.php on line 504
request_id="v-0000zzzz-d2b4-0000-b3a4-129zzzzd8266"