IIS7 - Advanced Logging

Logging vs. kernel mode caching

LesterDK — Thu, 14 May 2009 08:57:13 GMT

I keep reading about the kernel mode caching getting disabled when doing ODBC logging and probably also by using an HttpModule.

Will the advanced logging module disable kernel mode caching or will it simply not log items getting server from the cache?

We aim to get all our logs to a database, either directlym or by using file based logs and importing them later. (unfortunately the space-seperated log-files are annoying to import to a database)

Any thoughts on the issue and what approach is the best having caching in mind aswell.

On a sidenote our current ODBC logging is missing value for processingtime. Posted another thread about that issue here http://forums.iis.net/t/1157537.aspx

Logging directly to database

seba588587 — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 09:58:22 GMT

Hello,

is it possible to lo store logs generated by advanced logging to database? I have found that default ii7 logging does not support this feature, but I did not find information if it is or it is not possible in advanced logging.

Regards,

Sebastian

logging the POST content of a web services request

bobjase — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 15:43:10 GMT

I am trying to debug some issues we have been having with web services.

The advanced logging seems great, but I want to know if there is any way to log the actual POSTed data of the http request into the logfile.

I understand that, in theory, the post could possibly contain an entire file or set of files, but that is not the case here. This is just web service requests and I am having a terrible time debugging them. If i could just see what the heck was being sent, I am confident that I could resolve it.

Thank you

Adv logging the right tool for me?

zebrafilm — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 01:01:20 GMT

Just saw the new Adv logging tool and it looks promising. Glad there are modules like this.

I have a shared hosting enviroment and I am looking for the best way to monitor the website for hackers.

1. I would like to see a daily view of files that got added to the websites.

2. a daily overview of modified files on the websites.

Is this possible with Adv logging?

How to exclude my own IP address from logs?

Synapse Syndrome — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 03:19:56 GMT

This may be the wrong forum section to ask this, but I hope someone here can help...

I look at my own sites quite a bit, when I am working on them. This effects the logs.

I would like to be able to somehow exclude my own IP address from the IIS logs, or remove the entries in some automated way. I know some NT shell scripting; could the solution lie in that area?

The IIS server has the same IP address as the machine I am accessing it from, through the internet (using NAT). This problem is made a bit more complicated by the fact that I have a dynamic IP address that changes everytime I reboot the router.

Any ideas? Thanks.

Real time logging - HTTP Status code 46, 48 etc

jjy2 — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 13:25:10 GMT

When I check http status code, code 200 is always ok.
but I get "46", "48" etc instead of 404, 304 and so on.
maybe I shouldn't just cast *pbData to short?

However if I select "Write to disk" option and see the log files, it correctly written 404 and 304 etc..

Thank you

RC or RTM?

jjy2 — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 04:54:01 GMT

Could you please tell me when can we expect RC or RTM?

I've been testing real time logging about a month and it works perfectly for me. I occasionally see error message in the event log "The description for Event ID 0 from source IIS Advanced Logging Module cannot be found. "

But I suspect that may be something to do with my code!

Monitor site stop / start with advanced logging

steve schofield — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 02:03:36 GMT

Is it possible to log site stops / start using advanced logging. I initially looked at the module and didn't see anything but wanted to ask in-case I'm missing something. I know an external program monitoring would work, but is a separate log to monitor.

Using Advanced Logging to capture custom request headers

Lyndonp — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 23:38:55 GMT

I am trying to use Advanced Logging to capture a custom request header that is sent with every request. I have the field defined and added it to the Log Defination for the custom header. I do see the captured data in the Advanced Logging logs, but it doesn't appear that header sent with every request is being captured/logged, only the first(?) one.

Any insight on what I may be doing wrong? Thanks.

Initial thoughts on Advanced logging

steve schofield — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 02:33:24 GMT

I read through the posts and it's great logging is being expanded or looked at different ways. Has any types of 'reporting' or analytics modules been thought of or partnered to take advantage of the additional data. The logging data is one aspect of the overall solution. Maybe it's not the IIS team's role to figure out reporting.

As an IIS admin, my primary role isn't to worry about analytics or reporting. I'm sure others disagree. I guess understanding if the Microsoft Analytics software will take advantage of this, then it's easier to see the overall solution. I can't think of a reason beyond debugging to use advanced logging. Capture the POST data for certain tasks in FREB might help. I understand the POST config setting allows a lot of data, so that might not be a reality or if it trims down. Those are some initial thoughts. It appears this is targeted at mostly web 2.0 (streaming media and capturing more client side types of things related to Silverlight etc..)

IIS Advanced Logging 1.0 Feedback

vsood — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 22:19:49 GMT

Please use this thread to provide feedback on IIS Advanced Logging 1.0 release. We look forward to your input!

Logging header information

MattJOwens — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 06:51:01 GMT

I can't seem to get Advanced Logging to log all HTTP request headers passed to IIS to log to a file.

Could anyone please help me with this?

Thanks

Turn off logging for Office Communicator

pmcc — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 05:43:25 GMT

Hi, just wondering if it is possible to turn off logging for Office Communicator, we are getting up to 2Gb logs per day and logs are filling up with entries like this :

2009-08-24 23:59:59 10.82.0.90 GET /Abs/Int/Handler/D-0b7f-0c55.lsabs - 443 - 192.168.140.14 MSMSGS 401 1 2148074254 1

Any help appreciated.

Regards Peter.

Sample Client Issue

three_sixteen — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 20:41:06 GMT

Howdy,

I was playing around with the sample client provided here: http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9657323 and noticed that the client doesn't function in Firefox or Chrome. In Firefox the player will load fine, but when it tries to load the stream it throws an exception:

System.Exception: Failed to download media chunk V0009 (2436000), #10 in a row.

In Chrome the browser actually crashes. The client seems to work fine in Internet Explorer, however. I was able to reproduce the error on two seperate machines with two seperate smooth streams.

The host operating system on both workstations was Server 2008 and the Firefox browser version is 3.0.8, the Chrome browser version is 1.0.154.48

That being said, has anyone else had this issue? Im assuming that another player with logging support may work fine, but I haven't yet tested it.

request cpu utilization

matdodgson — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 05:21:42 GMT

Hi folks!

One thing I've been wanting for many years is some way of knowing the cpu utilization of a request. There's of course 'time taken' but it's not really the information I want.

After reading about the new IIS 7 Advanced Logging I was very pleased to see that it can log cpu utilization of a each request. I've installed it.

I'm getting log entries written into the advanced log however the 'cpu-utililization' column always has the value '-'. Is there something I'm missing? How can I see this information?

Thanks

track resource use by each request

hainguyenx — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 16:45:44 GMT

Hi,

I am new to this forum. Please excuse me if this post not suppose to be here and point me where I need to post this. I am a student working on my master project. I want to track the resources used by each request. I want to filter out those request that use too much resource ( memory, CPU). Is there a way to do it. Thanks in advance.

http post logging

ekibastuz — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 19:37:10 GMT

Hi I am trying to setup client reporting with POST requests according

http://learn.iis.net/page.aspx/582/advanced-logging-for-iis-70---client-logging

Seems SampleClient from http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9657323 does not work for me.

All looks fine - it get manifest with LogUrl , but client does not send any POST requests.

My log url looks like http://ip.ip.ip.ip:8080/report

Any ideas?

Thanks.

IIS7.0 Logs format and IIS7.5 different?

ysfozy — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 11:49:02 GMT

Hello,

Yesterday, I moved my website to IIS7.5 on W2K8 R2 Standard. But now I couldn't parse logs because log format is different.

IIS7.0 Hourly log format: u_ex090506

When I was at IIS7, IIS was updating same log file and I can parse that with a parser. But now, IIS is creating different log files for every hours.

IIS7.5 Hourly log format: u_ex09050600, u_ex09050601, u_ex09050602, u_ex09050603..

I don't want to see log files seperately. Is that possible to change this on IIS7.5?

Capturing User Session Details

juststeve — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 15:28:13 GMT

This question could be slightly ot for this forum but it's dead on descriptively - apologies in advance if admins need to move it.

I have a relatively low-traffic site and, at least at the initial launch, i'd go so far as to say i'd like to play-back a given user session.

Short of that, I'm looking for utilities and strategies that records users' interactions within my site - somewhere beyond raw log format - or even what I can produce with Log Parser on an ad hoc basis. Am willing to consider 3rd party $$ utilities but they have to be in the sub-enterprise bin. ;)

In case its relevant, the site is an asp.net mvc web app.

mny thx

--steve...

requests handled by custom http handlers are not logged by IIS7

Shobin — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 09:23:38 GMT

Hi
I have created an http handler in vb.net.
This will handle all the gif/jpg/png image requests coming to the server.
But these request are not logged ny IIS.
I am using IIS7 and vista.
What can be the issue ?
All other requests to my site is looged by IIS.

Logging POST - file upload

johneijg — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 10:42:58 GMT

Guys,

I've read the Advanced Logging walktrought but I can't seem to make it work for the logging of file uploads. The walkthrough mentions streaming a lot which isn't applicable to our enviroment.

My site is using a form in which I can select files which will be uploaded via a post command when pressing the button.

I can see the Post results comming in to the default IIS logs but without many details.
I would like to log the filenames which are being uploaded to the site, not all of the data.

Can anyone point me into the right direction for achieving this?

Thanks,

John

Advanced Logging Feedback thread

vsood — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 16:28:31 GMT

The beta release of Advanced Logging was announced on 03/18/2009 at the MIX09 conference. With Advanced Logging you will be able to capture rich details in your logs and process them in real-time. These capabilities make this feature really compelling by helping you monetize your content with better analytics and improve service with rich QOS information.

What are your thoughts and questions about Advanced Logging? We'd love to hear them...

[Poll]

Not displaying the additional fields in log

Rovastar — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 04:34:07 GMT

I have finally installed (Using the web platform installer 2) advanced logging to see what the fuss is about. Now it looks all straight forward to setup however I cannot get it display nay additional fields.

I selected all the fields for testing and only the initial default ones appear.

#Fields: date time cs-uri-stem cs-uri-query s-contentpath CPU-Utilization sc-status

Here is a screenshot of the relevant Advanced logging stuff.

I have even rebooted the server.

But the additional fields do not appear.

Any ideas?

Troubleshooting and Isolating user sessions

juststeve — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 23:21:10 GMT

I'm looking for examples of how other folks are dealing with the need to isolate a given user session based on error or other conditions. I've developed some primitive stratagies using LogParser and always intended to refine them but never gotten around to it.

Will Advanced Logging change how we can approach the problem?

Have other folks published scripts and or apps that help developers drill into logs?

thx
--steve...

log POST-data (the data in the request body)

awolff — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 03:07:47 GMT

I would like to know how to save Request POST Data in the log

Thanks in Advance,

Alexander