YAWL Configurable Logging: Capture More Data for Process Mining!

How can XES logs from YAWL be enriched with custom information?
This video introduces configurable logging in YAWL and explains how custom log entries can be added to XES event logs.

The tutorial demonstrates how configurable logging allows workflow designers to include additional data—such as variable values, timer states, and timestamps—directly in task completion events. Using a workflow with expiring timer tasks as an example, the video shows how log entries can capture whether a task was completed manually or expired due to a timeout.

Viewers learn how to configure logging expressions in YAWL and how the resulting XES files reflect the enriched information. A walkthrough illustrates how the enhanced logs can be downloaded and prepared for analysis in process mining tools.

The example highlights how configurable logging improves the explanatory power of event logs and enables more detailed process mining analyses, particularly for time-dependent behavior and exception handling.

This tutorial is part of the playlist “Learn how to automate business processes with YAWL (ADVANCED)”:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4BZgFsmRzfQ9QpXfqLC7uBTMS12C5MQR

Supplementary material, including the YAWL workflow specification used in this tutorial, is available on GitHub:
https://github.com/ahense/YAWL  
(Download via “Code” → “Download ZIP”. The material is located in the folder corresponding to the tutorial number.)

This is video #38 of the YAWLSeries.