by
lr » Tue Mar 06, 2018 9:00 pm
(About web logs)
scott wrote:
So please use the /logs/by_user/ directory/directories to get the split-out web logs, and we'll see what we can do to get realtime logs to people _securely_.
Sorry if this is an inconvenience. Feedback appreciated.
First, a big thank you for giving us access logs! I use them rarely, for two purposes.
One is, every few months, to get a general feel for who is accessing my pages, and to check whether I need to do something against spiders that are wasting bandwidth. For that, the current 1-month long view is perfectly sufficient, and it doesn't matter that it isn't real-time.
The other thing, which I've only used a handful of times (in the last 15 or so years of being a Sonic customer) is to look in realtime at the error logs: When I'm messing with a web page and something goes wrong, it's nice to get immediate feedback of what the problem could be. AFAIK, the error log does not get split by customer, and is not visible in the by_user logs. But honestly, if that functionality goes away, it really won't kill me, it's so rare I use it.