Huge IIS Logs

Question posted by: redragon (Newbie) on July 2nd, 2008 06:29 PM

Hi All!

We are generating about 80 MB a day of IIS logs and space issues are apparent.

Is there an intelligent document or strategy to trimming these, or choosing a different format? We are currently using the W3C format. Is there anything more compact?

kenobewan

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4,534 Posts

July 3rd, 2008
11:41 AM
#2

Re: Huge IIS Logs

Here is an article that may help you:
Log File Formats in IIS (IIS 6.0)

You may have many extended logging options that you don't need. Reduce these and reduce the size of your log files. Another option would be to use ODBC and store the info in a DB.

Using ODBC is not always recommended, may create performance hit. One alternative is the Log Parser Tool, which is used to push log files to sql server after they have been created. HTH.

xoise

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6 Posts

July 3rd, 2008
06:13 PM
#3

Re: Huge IIS Logs

You may also look into Urchin to manage your logs. It can archive logs, automatically delete old ones, etc.

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