The specified web does not contain a reporting metadata list

When you view Audit log reports on a Microsoft Office SharePoint site, you receive the following error message:

The specified Web does not contain a reporting metadata list.

Guys- one of our clients has opened an incident ticket by mentioning that he is getting the above mentioned error message. If we notice the error message carefully then you will come to know that it’s clarifying something in the direction of site template.

I have started my troubleshooting to find out that if its works properly in Team site template then which are those templates are having these problems. Let me tell you that this troubleshooting took 2-3 hours to test each and every template to find out the correct resolution.

Finally I have successfully resolved this issue and here is my analysis:

This issue may occur if any of the following templates were used to create the default site:

1.   Document Workspace

2.   Wiki

3.   Blog

4.   Records Center

Note: To view Audit log reports, click Audit log reports  on the Site Actions/ Site Settings  menu.

Resolution:

To resolve this issue, run the following STSADM command on the SharePoint server for each affected site collection:

stsadm -o activatefeature -name Reporting -url http://yourssitecollectionurl/ -force

Please check and let me know in case of any further queries/questions, Thank you. Happy SharePoint to all of you :) :)