Fix missing usage analytics logs in Sharepoint 2013 event store

Sharepoint 2013 usage analytics reports give to administrators view of site usage statistics. But it is not so simple to configure them to work. Most frequent issue is that Excel reports contain only zeros. There may be many reasons for this problem. One of them is missing log files in EventStore. EventStore is located in "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office Servers\15.0\Data\Office Server\Analytics_{GUID}\EventStore\" folder on the server. If it is empty check the following in PowerShell:

$aud = Get-SPUsageDefinition | where {$_.Name -like "Analytics*"}
$aud | fl

It will show something like this:

Pay attention on EnableReceivers and Receivers – first should be set to True and second to Microsoft.Office.Server.Search.Analytics.Internal.AnalyticsCustomRequestUsageReceiver like shown on the picture. If EnableReceivers is set to False and Receivers is empty execute the following code also in PowerShell:

$aud.Receivers.Add("Microsoft.Office.Server.Search.Applications, Version=15.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c","Microsoft.Office.Server.Search.Analytics.Internal.AnalyticsCustomRequestUsageReceiver")
$aud.EnableReceivers = $true
$aud.Update()

After that check also requests usage:

$prud = Get-SPUsageDefinition | where {$_.Name -like "Page Requests"}
$prud | fl

Which should look like this:

Here also if EnableReceivers is set to False and Receivers is empty execute the following code:

$prud.Receivers.Add("Microsoft.Office.Server.Search.Applications, Version=15.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c", "Microsoft.Office.Server.Search.Analytics.Internal.ViewRequestUsageReceiver")
$prud.EnableReceivers = $true
$prud.Update()

After that go to the site and click some links to generate traffic. Log files should be created in EventStore folder.