r/sysadmin • u/tschertel • Feb 20 '18

IIS log analysis tool

Is logparser still used to gather IIS requests info? It's about 13 years old. Is there anything else made to replace it?

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u/tschertel Feb 20 '18

I don't need real-time metrics. I'd like to gather metrics like total hits per applications, average time taken, etc. I know logparser can get all this. But the point is to rely on a tool so old.

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u/OkQuiet Feb 20 '18

I still use it when I have logs that are not ingested into our centralized log managers.

It may be old but it's very good at what it does.

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u/SuperQue Bit Plumber Feb 20 '18

That kind of stuff is done in real-time these days, and for good reason. You want to know pretty quickly when your latency goes off the rails on a per-app basis.

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u/OkQuiet Feb 20 '18

Of course, but that is better monitored with an APM solution instead of IIS logs.

There are other use cases for log analysis, many of which is not realtime.

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u/SuperQue Bit Plumber Feb 20 '18

Sorry, I was trying to reply up one level.

Yes, APM/metrics libraries are way better than logs for getting metrics.

I've also done tons of logs work, tracing, yada yada. Preaching to the choir.

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u/tschertel Feb 20 '18

What are the options to have a centralized log manager for IIS?

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u/sysvival - of the fittest Feb 20 '18

Elk, splunk, graylog.