Exchange Event ID 1012 & 1013

KB ID 0001619

Problem

Seen on Exchange 2013/2016

Event ID 1012

Event ID 1012

Log Name: Application
Source:  MSExchangeDiagnostics
Event ID: 1012
Task Category: General
Level: Error
Keywords: Classic
User:  N/A
Description: Data loss occurred in RetentionAgent: RetentionAgent: Data loss occurred. The size of this folder E:\Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange Server\V15\Logging\Diagnostics\DailyPerformanceLogs has reached the max size allowed – 5120 MB. Some files will be purged.

Event ID 1013

Event ID 1013

Log Name: Application
Source: MSExchangeDiagnostics
Event ID: 1013
Task Category: General
Level: Warning
Keywords: Classic
User: N/A
Description: Potential data loss warning in RetentionAgent: RetentionAgent: Warning: Potential data loss. The size of this folder E:\Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange Server\V15\Logging\Diagnostics\DailyPerformanceLogs has reached 95% of max size allowed – 5120 MB. Some data will be purged once it reaches the max limit.

Temporary Solution

I must say I don’t really like this solution, if you trawl the forums, you will see this is how you suppress the error. But you should really relocate the logs

Navigate to: {Drive Letter}:\Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange Server\V15\bin\Microsoft.Exchange.Diagnostics.Service.exe.config

Locate the DailyPerformanceLogs section and look for the LogDataLoss entry, change it from True to False.

Event-ID 1013 Fix

Then restart the Microsoft Exchange Diagnostic Service.

Proper Solution

To relocate the logs to another location, or a larger partition/disk, do the following;

First double check the log location;

logman query ExchangeDiagnosticsDailyPerformanceLog | more

Then to move the logs, stop the logging, relocate the log location, and finally start the logging again;

logman -stop ExchangeDiagnosticsDailyPerformanceLog
logman -update ExchangeDiagnosticsDailyPerformanceLog -o “H:\Exchange\PerformanceLogs”
logman -start ExchangeDiagnosticsDailyPerformanceLog

move exchange performanace logs

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Author: PeteLong

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  1. Pete: Is this what you were looking for: {link}

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    • Spot on Dom Thank You, I’ve updated the article accordingly.

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  2. Hi Pete

    I tried this and it would not start the service, I cannot get the Test-healthservice command to work
    can you advise ?

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