IBM Operations Analytics - Log Analysis, Version 1.3.2

Web Access Logs Insight Pack

The Web Access Logs Insight Pack provides the capability to ingest and perform metadata searches against Web Access Logs (Apache IHS, JBoss, Apache Tomcat) in IBM® Operations Analytics - Log Analysis.

This document describes the version of the Web Access Logs Insight Pack that is installed when you install IBM Operations Analytics - Log Analysis. An updated version of the Web Access Logs Insight Pack may have been published after this version of IBM Operations Analytics - Log Analysis. To download the latest versions of this Insight Pack as well as updated documentation, see http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/servicemanagement/downloads.html.

The Web Access Log Insight Pack ingests records in the web server access log. Server access logs record information about all requests handled by a web server. This can include information about the IP address of the client making the request, userid of the person making the request (determined by the HTTP authentication), timestamp when the request was received, the request line, etc. The access log is highly configurable, and the LogFormat or pattern is used to define the contents and format of the access log.

Note: The access log is different from the web server log, server.log.

By using the LogFormat directive or pattern to create a delimiter-separated value (DSV) access log file, the Web Access Log Insight Pack can annotate and index access logs for ingestion, annotation, and indexing into IBM Operations Analytics - Log Analysis. The Web Access Logs Insight Pack supports the following web servers (and any others which enable the LogFormat specification required by this insight pack):

The Web Access Logs Insight Pack can be installed with IBM Operations Analytics - Log Analysis 1.1.0.2 and higher.

Parent topic: Out of the box Insight Packs

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