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Request logs are a record of the requests that the server has processed. There is one entry per request received, commonly in the standard [http://hoohoo.ncsa.uiuc.edu/docs/setup/httpd/LogOptions.html NCSA format], so you can  conveniently analyze these logs using a tool such as [http://www.mrunix.net/webalizer/ Webalizer].
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Request logs are a record of the requests that the server has processed. There is one entry per request received, in the standard [http://www.w3.org/Daemon/User/Config/Logging.html#common-logfile-format NCSA format], so you can  conveniently analyze these logs using a tool such as [http://www.mrunix.net/webalizer/ Webalizer].
  
A standard request log entry includes the client IP address, date, method, URL, result, size, referrer and user agent, for example:
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A standard request log entry includes the client IP address, date, method, URL, result, size, referrer and user agent. For example:
  
 
<source lang = "text">
 
<source lang = "text">
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</source>
 
</source>
  
Jetty provides a request log implementation called NCSARequestLog which supports the NCSA format in files that can be rolled over on a daily basis.
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* Jetty provides a request log implementation called NCSARequestLog which supports the NCSA format in files that can be rolled over on a daily basis.
  
The [http://logback.qos.ch Logback project] offers [http://logback.qos.ch/access.html another implementation] of RequestLog interface, providing very rich and powerful HTTP-access log functionality,
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* The [http://logback.qos.ch Logback project] offers [http://logback.qos.ch/access.html another implementation] of the RequestLog interface, providing very rich and powerful HTTP-access log functionality.
  
If neither of these options suits you, you can implement a custom request logger by implementing Jetty's [http://jetty.eclipse.org/jetty/jetty-6/xref/org/mortbay/jetty/RequestLog.html RequestLog.java] interface and plugging it in in similar fashion to the NCSARequestLog, as shown below.
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* If neither of these options suits you, you can create a custom request logger by implementing Jetty's [http://download.eclipse.org/jetty/stable-7/apidocs/org/eclipse/jetty/server/NCSARequestLog.html RequestLog.java] interface and plugging it in similar to the NCSARequestLog, as shown below.
  
 
==Configuring a Request Log for a Jetty Server==
 
==Configuring a Request Log for a Jetty Server==
  
To configure a single request log for the entire Jetty Server instance:
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The following example configures a single request log for the entire Jetty Server instance:
  
 
<source lang = "xml">
 
<source lang = "xml">
<Set name="handler">
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<Set name="handler">
      <New id="Handlers" class="org.mortbay.jetty.handler.HandlerCollection">
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  <New id="Handlers" class="org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.HandlerCollection">
        <Set name="handlers">
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    <Set name="handlers">
          <Array type="org.mortbay.jetty.Handler">
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        <Array type="org.eclipse.jetty.server.Handler">
            <Item>
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          <Item>
              <New id="Contexts" class="org.mortbay.jetty.handler.ContextHandlerCollection"/>
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            <New id="Contexts" class="org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ContextHandlerCollection"/>
 
             </Item>
 
             </Item>
 
             <Item>
 
             <Item>
               <New id="DefaultHandler" class="org.mortbay.jetty.handler.DefaultHandler"/>
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               <New id="DefaultHandler" class="org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.DefaultHandler"/>
 
             </Item>
 
             </Item>
 
             <Item>
 
             <Item>
               <New id="RequestLog" class="org.mortbay.jetty.handler.RequestLogHandler"/>
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               <New id="RequestLog" class="org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.RequestLogHandler"/>
 
             </Item>
 
             </Item>
          </Array>
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        </Array>
        </Set>
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    </Set>
      </New>
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  </New>
    </Set>
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</Set>
 
   
 
   
 
   
 
   
    <Ref id="RequestLog">
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<Ref id="RequestLog">
      <Set name="requestLog">
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  <Set name="requestLog">
        <New id="RequestLogImpl" class="org.mortbay.jetty.NCSARequestLog">
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    <New id="RequestLogImpl" class="org.eclipse.jetty.NCSARequestLog">
          <Arg><SystemProperty name="jetty.logs" default="./logs"/>/yyyy_mm_dd.request.log</Arg>
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      <Arg><SystemProperty name="jetty.logs" default="./logs"/>/yyyy_mm_dd.request.log</Arg>
          <Set name="retainDays">90</Set>
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      <Set name="retainDays">90</Set>
          <Set name="append">true</Set>
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      <Set name="append">true</Set>
          <Set name="extended">false</Set>
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      <Set name="extended">false</Set>
          <Set name="LogTimeZone">GMT</Set>
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      <Set name="LogTimeZone">GMT</Set>
        </New>
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    </New>
      </Set>
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  </Set>
    </Ref>
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</Ref>
 
</source>
 
</source>
  
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<source lang = "java">
 
<source lang = "java">
HandlerCollection handlers = new HandlerCollection();
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HandlerCollection handlers = new HandlerCollection();
        ContextHandlerCollection contexts = new ContextHandlerCollection();
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ContextHandlerCollection contexts = new ContextHandlerCollection();
        RequestLogHandler requestLogHandler = new RequestLogHandler();
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RequestLogHandler requestLogHandler = new RequestLogHandler();
        handlers.setHandlers(new Handler[]{contexts,new DefaultHandler(),requestLogHandler});
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handlers.setHandlers(new Handler[]{contexts,new DefaultHandler(),requestLogHandler});
        server.setHandler(handlers);
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server.setHandler(handlers);
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        NCSARequestLog requestLog = new NCSARequestLog("./logs/jetty-yyyy_mm_dd.request.log");
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NCSARequestLog requestLog = new NCSARequestLog("./logs/jetty-yyyy_mm_dd.request.log");
        requestLog.setRetainDays(90);
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requestLog.setRetainDays(90);
        requestLog.setAppend(true);
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requestLog.setAppend(true);
        requestLog.setExtended(false);
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requestLog.setExtended(false);
        requestLog.setLogTimeZone("GMT");
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requestLog.setLogTimeZone("GMT");
        requestLogHandler.setRequestLog(requestLog);
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requestLogHandler.setRequestLog(requestLog);
 
</source>
 
</source>
  
This configures a request log in $JETTY_HOME/logs with filenames including the date. Old log files are kept for 90 days before being deleted. Existing log files are appended to and the extended NCSA format is used in the GMT timezone.
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This configures a request log in $JETTY_HOME/logs with filenames including the date. Old log files are kept for 90 days before being deleted. New entries append to existing log files, and the extended NCSA format is used in the GMT timezone.
  
There are many more configuration options available - see http://jetty.mortbay.org/apidocs/org/mortbay/jetty/NCSARequestLog.html
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Many more configuration options are available–see [http://download.eclipse.org/jetty/stable-7/apidocs/org/eclipse/jetty/server/NCSARequestLog.html RequestLog.java].
  
==Configuring a Request Log per webapp==
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==Configuring a Request Log per Webapp==
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The next example configures a request log on a per webapp basis:
  
 
<source lang = "xml">
 
<source lang = "xml">
<Configure class="org.eclipse.jetty.webapp.WebAppContext">
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<Configure class="org.eclipse.jetty.webapp.WebAppContext">
 
   
 
   
 
   ...
 
   ...
 
   
 
   
  <Call name="addHandler">
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  <Call name="addHandler">
    <Arg>
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    <Arg>
    <New class="org.mortbay.jetty.handler.RequestLogHandler">
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      <New class="org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.RequestLogHandler">
      <Set name="requestLog">
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        <Set name="requestLog">
        <New id="RequestLogImpl" class="org.mortbay.jetty.NCSARequestLog">
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            <New id="RequestLogImpl" class="org.eclipse.jetty.server.NCSARequestLog">
          <Arg><SystemProperty name="jetty.logs" default="./logs"/>/yyyy_mm_dd.test.request.log</Arg>
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            <Arg><SystemProperty name="jetty.logs" default="./logs"/>/yyyy_mm_dd.test.request.log</Arg>
          <Set name="retainDays">90</Set>
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            <Set name="retainDays">90</Set>
          <Set name="append">true</Set>
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            <Set name="append">true</Set>
          <Set name="extended">false</Set>
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            <Set name="extended">false</Set>
          <Set name="LogTimeZone">GMT</Set>
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            <Set name="LogTimeZone">GMT</Set>
        </New>
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          </New>
      </Set>
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        </Set>
    </New>
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      </New>
    </Arg>
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    </Arg>
  </Call>
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  </Call>
 
   
 
   
 
   ...
 
   ...

Latest revision as of 14:44, 20 March 2013



Introduction

Request logs are a record of the requests that the server has processed. There is one entry per request received, in the standard NCSA format, so you can conveniently analyze these logs using a tool such as Webalizer.

A standard request log entry includes the client IP address, date, method, URL, result, size, referrer and user agent. For example:

 123.4.5.6 - - [27/Aug/2004:10:16:17 +0000]
  "GET /jetty/tut/XmlConfiguration.html HTTP/1.1"
  200 76793 "http://localhost:8080/jetty/tut/logging.html"
  "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040614 Firefox/0.8"
  • Jetty provides a request log implementation called NCSARequestLog which supports the NCSA format in files that can be rolled over on a daily basis.
  • If neither of these options suits you, you can create a custom request logger by implementing Jetty's RequestLog.java interface and plugging it in similar to the NCSARequestLog, as shown below.

Configuring a Request Log for a Jetty Server

The following example configures a single request log for the entire Jetty Server instance:

<Set name="handler">
  <New id="Handlers" class="org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.HandlerCollection">
     <Set name="handlers">
        <Array type="org.eclipse.jetty.server.Handler">
           <Item>
             <New id="Contexts" class="org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ContextHandlerCollection"/>
            </Item>
            <Item>
              <New id="DefaultHandler" class="org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.DefaultHandler"/>
            </Item>
            <Item>
              <New id="RequestLog" class="org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.RequestLogHandler"/>
            </Item>
        </Array>
    </Set>
  </New>
</Set>
 
 
<Ref id="RequestLog">
  <Set name="requestLog">
    <New id="RequestLogImpl" class="org.eclipse.jetty.NCSARequestLog">
      <Arg><SystemProperty name="jetty.logs" default="./logs"/>/yyyy_mm_dd.request.log</Arg>
      <Set name="retainDays">90</Set>
      <Set name="append">true</Set>
      <Set name="extended">false</Set>
      <Set name="LogTimeZone">GMT</Set>
     </New>
  </Set>
</Ref>

The equivalent code is:

HandlerCollection handlers = new HandlerCollection();
ContextHandlerCollection contexts = new ContextHandlerCollection();
RequestLogHandler requestLogHandler = new RequestLogHandler();
handlers.setHandlers(new Handler[]{contexts,new DefaultHandler(),requestLogHandler});
server.setHandler(handlers);
 
NCSARequestLog requestLog = new NCSARequestLog("./logs/jetty-yyyy_mm_dd.request.log");
requestLog.setRetainDays(90);
requestLog.setAppend(true);
requestLog.setExtended(false);
requestLog.setLogTimeZone("GMT");
requestLogHandler.setRequestLog(requestLog);

This configures a request log in $JETTY_HOME/logs with filenames including the date. Old log files are kept for 90 days before being deleted. New entries append to existing log files, and the extended NCSA format is used in the GMT timezone.

Many more configuration options are available–see RequestLog.java.

Configuring a Request Log per Webapp

The next example configures a request log on a per webapp basis:

<Configure class="org.eclipse.jetty.webapp.WebAppContext">
 
   ...
 
  <Call name="addHandler">
    <Arg>
      <New class="org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.RequestLogHandler">
         <Set name="requestLog">
            <New id="RequestLogImpl" class="org.eclipse.jetty.server.NCSARequestLog">
            <Arg><SystemProperty name="jetty.logs" default="./logs"/>/yyyy_mm_dd.test.request.log</Arg>
            <Set name="retainDays">90</Set>
            <Set name="append">true</Set>
            <Set name="extended">false</Set>
            <Set name="LogTimeZone">GMT</Set>
          </New>
        </Set>
      </New>
    </Arg>
  </Call>
 
   ...
 
 </Configure>

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