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IIS Log Files for SPS2003 Site are Enormous - Can Anything Done Abo

Asked By: Alyssa Lewis Date: Jun 14, 2006 Category: Sharepoint Views: 469

The IIS Logfiles for my SPS2003 site are extremely large, now topping 100MB per day.

Using Microsoft Log Parser 2.2, I ran this query against yesterday’s log (ex060228.log) to get my 20 most popular “pages”:

C:\Program Files\Log Parser 2.2>logparser "select top 20 cs-uri-stem as stem, count(*) as rCount from ex060228.log group by cs-uri-stem order by rCount desc"

And got these results:

stem rCount

--------------------------------- ------

/_vti_bin/sitedata.asmx 80259

/_vti_bin/owssvr.dll 69288

/_layouts/1033/ows_taskhistory.js 41548

/_layouts/1033/ows_livemail.js 34507

/default.aspx 25300

/_vti_bin/spscrawl.asmx 24596

/_layouts/1033/ows_audit.js 24184

/_layouts/1033/webservice.htc 13587

/_layouts/1033/ows_cutandpaste.js 11301

/_layouts/1033/Menu.htc 9886

/_layouts/1033/msstring.js 8809

/_layouts/1033/styles/menu.css 8208

/_layouts/1033/styles/sps.css 8085

/_layouts/1033/owsbrows.js 6808

/_layouts/1033/styles/Menu.css 6717

/_layouts/1033/styles/ows.css 6180

/_layouts/1033/Menu.js 6055

/_layouts/1033/styles/jso.css 5906

/_layouts/images/blank.gif 5412

/_layouts/images/icongo02.gif 5200

Statistics:
-----------

Elements processed: 569863

Do my numbers seem extremely high, like maybe I’ve mis-configured SPS or WSS search or indexing?

Does 570K “hits” per day seem high for a corporate intranet? Note that we have perhaps 2K users, almost none using SPS2003/WSS in what I would consider an active or enthused way.

Have other SPS2003/WSS admins run into similarly large log files? If so, do you just constantly compress and/or archive the files?

Tagged:iis log files for sps2003 site are enormous can anything done abo

6 Answers Found

Answer #1 Answered By: Gopal Jamakhandi Answered On: Jun 14, 2006

No, this looks pretty normal to me. You have to take into account that raw IIS logs are exactly that. Raw. They’re hits and inside SharePoint, it uses things like ows.js on every page, owssvr.dll is called for almost any aspx page, etc. so you’re not going to get popular pages from raw IIS logs like you would a static site. Check out the SQL Reporting Services and SharePoint reporting pack for this as it retrieves the data from a number of sources (including the IIS logs) and then parses it intelligently to find your best bet searches, most popular pages, users, sites, etc. as it understands how to interpret those from the raw sources.

Answer #2 Answered By: Keenan Whitehead Answered On: Jun 14, 2006

Agreed… they look normal to me. Keep in mind that they are raw text files. This means you could write a batch file that would archive (zip/rar) up the raw files for previous days/weeks. Since they are raw text files, I’d expect they’d compress to a fraction of their raw size.

Answer #3 Answered By: Damon Garner Answered On: Jun 14, 2006

When looking at everything that is logged by SharePoint there is a lot
of information that you don't really need and can be filtered out.

I wrote a web log entry about this. Have a look at
http://weblogs.asp.net/soever/archive/2005/05/29/409614.aspx" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">weblogs.asp.net/.../409614.aspx

Serge van den Oever [Macaw]
weblog: http://weblogs.asp.net/soever

Answer #4 Answered By: Dameon Dejesus Answered On: Jun 14, 2006

We have an article on the Mindsharp Premium Content site that not only
explains the log files but how to query them.

Answer #5 Answered By: Tejaswani Barve Answered On: Jun 14, 2006

where on the site? I am on the premium content area

Answer #6 Answered By: Harshita Padwal Answered On: Jun 14, 2006

It used to be there, I swear.

I will look for it and post a link to this group when I find it. Sorry
for the misdirection.

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