In Sharepoint 2013, workflow architecture has been enhanced well to suit the needs of scalable architecture. Sharepoint 2013 workflow runs on a difference machine/server. So sharepoint interacts with Windows workflow foundation through REST end Points.
In order to debug the workflow in Sharepoint 2013, Event Viewer can be monitored for the root cause of the failure.
I had hosted down the steps to perform the functionality.
Steps
- Open Event Viewer.
- Go to the Applications and Services Logs node.
- Open the Microsoft-Workflow node.
- Navigate to the most recent Information, Warning, and Error events in the events pane.
- Select View, Show Analytic and Debug Logs. Enable the analytic and debug logs and attempt to reproduce the problem.
- Review the captured events
Happy SharePointing :-)