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A page about the format or structure of log file.
Structure
- message (a piece of text which is the only mandatory data)
- date
- and custom attributes such as:
- Origin
Known Format
Most format are single line.
Apache Common Log Format
What is the Apache Common Log Format (CLF)?
Example:
- for this configuration:
LogFormat "%h %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %b \"%{Referer}i\" \"%{User-agent}i\"" combined
- you get:
127.0.0.1 - frank [10/Oct/2000:13:55:36 -0700] "GET /apache_pb.gif HTTP/1.0" 200 2326 "http://www.example.com/start.html" "Mozilla/4.08 [en] (Win98; I ;Nav)"
Labeled Tab-separated Values (LTSV)
Labeled Tab-separated Values (LTSV) add a label
Format:
- Each record is represented as a single line.
- Each field is separated by TAB and has a label and a value. The label and the value have been separated by ':'.
Example:
- for this configuration
LogFormat "host:%h\tident:%l\tuser:%u\ttime:%t\treq:%r\tstatus:%>s\tsize:%b\treferer:\%{Referer}i\tua:%{User-Agent}i" combined_ltsv
- you get
host:127.0.0.1<TAB>ident:-<TAB>user:frank<TAB>time:[10/Oct/2000:13:55:36 -0700]<TAB>req:GET /apache_pb.gif HTTP/1.0<TAB>status:200<TAB>size:2326<TAB>referer:http://www.example.com/start.html<TAB>ua:Mozilla/4.08 [en] (Win98; I ;Nav)
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