{"id":538,"date":"2009-07-19T15:27:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-19T15:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brainlitter.itgroove.net\/2009\/07\/19\/iis-logging-fields-necessary-for-statistics-packages\/"},"modified":"2009-07-19T15:27:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-19T15:27:00","slug":"iis-logging-fields-necessary-for-statistics-packages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regroove.ca\/brainlitter\/2009\/07\/19\/iis-logging-fields-necessary-for-statistics-packages\/","title":{"rendered":"IIS Logging Fields necessary for statistics packages"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ExternalClassDC4DDD336C34439EB1CB7B4F992E3347\">\n<p>I was enabling some 3<sup>rd<\/sup> party web server statistics software today (Smarterstats by <a>www.smartertools.com<\/a>) on a SharePoint server and it was necessary to make sure all the appropriate fields necessary for returning all information, in all reports were set. For Smarterstats (and in general this can apply to all webstatistics software), the following are necessary for ensuring complete statistics: <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>These are the necessary log fields that WX3Cex log files need to have for statistics software to process them correctly for reports: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color:#365f91;font-size:12pt\">date <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:#365f91;font-size:12pt\">time <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:#365f91;font-size:12pt\">c-ip <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:#365f91;font-size:12pt\">cs-username (if Windows authentication is used and you want to track them) <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:#365f91;font-size:12pt\">cs-method <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:#365f91;font-size:12pt\">cs-uri-stem <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:#365f91;font-size:12pt\">cs-uri-query (if you want to track query items for data mining) <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:#365f91;font-size:12pt\">sc-status <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:#365f91;font-size:12pt\">sc-substatus <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:#365f91;font-size:12pt\">sc-win32-status <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:#365f91;font-size:12pt\">sc-bytes ( if you would like to track bandwidth) <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:#365f91;font-size:12pt\">cs-bytes ( if you would like to track bandwidth) <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:#365f91;font-size:12pt\">cs-hosts <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:#365f91;font-size:12pt\">cs(User-Agent) ( if you would like to track browser or bots) <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:#365f91;font-size:12pt\">cs(Referrer) (if you would like to track referrer or search engine) <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2>Logging is defined in IIS by enabling the following <\/h2>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/brainlitterarchive\/Lists\/Photos\/071909_2226_IISLoggingF1.png\"> <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/brainlitterarchive\/Lists\/Photos\/071909_2226_IISLoggingF2.png\"> <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Note<\/em><\/strong>: Logging lots of stuff is great for statistics and troubleshooting. 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