Re: THREDDS log analyzer

Hello,

The threddsAccess.log file is in Apache "common" format with the
addition of a response time field at the end of each line. So, we use
some standard log analyzer software on our motherlode server (awstats
and sawmill).

Also, I don't think we mentioned this in the 3.14 release notes but we
are switching from the above logs rolled by us to the logs produced by
the Tomcat AccessLogValve. One really nice thing about this valve is
that it knows the size of the responses so the log contains the number
of bytes even for OPeNDAP responses. So, if the response size is
important, you might think about switching to that as well.

We'll add documentation for this in our next release but, for now, here
are the basics. You have to set it up in the Tomcat server.xml file. If
you search for "Access" in the server.xml file you will find a section
on this valve that is commented out. If you just uncomment the Valve
element you should get a log in the Apache common format for all
requests handled by your Tomcat installation. We changed the log file
name and added the response time field to the "common" format. Here's
what ours looks like:

<!-- Access log processes all requests for this virtual host. By
default, log files are created in the "logs" directory relative to
$CATALINA_HOME. If you wish, you can specify a different
directory with the "directory" attribute. Specify either a relative
(to $CATALINA_HOME) or absolute path to the desired directory.
-->
<Valve className="org.apache.catalina.valves.AccessLogValve"
directory="logs" prefix="access." suffix=".log"
pattern="%h %l %u %t &quot;%r&quot; %s %b %D" resolveHosts="false"/>

Hope that helps,

Ethan

Park Taezoon wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I would like to build a web page which shows the statistics of the
> data served by THREDDS. The log file generated by THREDDS seems to
> have almost all the information necessary inside.
> Before start writing THREDDS log analyzer, I would like to check
> whether there is one already built. ;-) Do you guys have any
> implementation of the log analyzer for THREDDS?
>
> Thank you.
>
> Taezoon Park

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