From 81581f9719bc56f01d5aa08952671d65fda9867a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daniel Baumann Date: Mon, 8 May 2023 18:27:08 +0200 Subject: Merging upstream version 1.39.0. Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann --- docs/guides/collect-apache-nginx-web-logs.md | 25 +++++-------------------- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-) (limited to 'docs/guides/collect-apache-nginx-web-logs.md') diff --git a/docs/guides/collect-apache-nginx-web-logs.md b/docs/guides/collect-apache-nginx-web-logs.md index b4a525471..e9b38c27e 100644 --- a/docs/guides/collect-apache-nginx-web-logs.md +++ b/docs/guides/collect-apache-nginx-web-logs.md @@ -1,16 +1,8 @@ - +# Monitor Nginx or Apache web server log files -# Monitor Nginx or Apache web server log files with Netdata +Parsing web server log files with Netdata, revealing the volume of redirects, requests and other metrics, can give you a better overview of your infrastructure. -Log files have been a critical resource for developers and system administrators who want to understand the health and -performance of their web servers, and Netdata is taking important steps to make them even more valuable. - -By parsing web server log files with Netdata, and seeing the volume of redirects, requests, or server errors over time, -you can better understand what's happening on your infrastructure. Too many bad requests? Maybe a recent deploy missed a -few small SVG icons. Too many requests? Time to batten down the hatches—it's a DDoS. +Too many bad requests? Maybe a recent deploy missed a few small SVG icons. Too many requests? Time to batten down the hatches—it's a DDoS. You can use the [LTSV log format](http://ltsv.org/), track TLS and cipher usage, and the whole parser is faster than ever. In one test on a system with SSD storage, the collector consistently parsed the logs for 200,000 requests in @@ -116,12 +108,5 @@ You can also edit this file directly with `edit-config`: ./edit-config health.d/weblog.conf ``` -For more information about editing the defaults or writing new alarm entities, see our [health monitoring -documentation](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/blob/master/health/README.md). - -## What's next? - -Now that you have web log collection up and running, we recommend you take a look at the collector's [documentation](https://github.com/netdata/go.d.plugin/blob/master/modules/weblog/README.md) for some ideas of how you can turn these rather "boring" logs into powerful real-time tools for keeping your servers happy. - -Don't forget to give GitHub user [Wing924](https://github.com/Wing924) a big 👍 for his hard work in starting up the Go -refactoring effort. +For more information about editing the defaults or writing new alarm entities, see our +[health monitoring documentation](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/blob/master/health/README.md). -- cgit v1.2.3