On 7/5/06, Rob Church robchur@gmail.com wrote:
On 05/07/06, Neil Harris neil@tonal.clara.co.uk wrote:
If this would not be practical, please let me know why.
The fact that we don't retain the logs is perhaps a wee bit prohibitive.
Since so many people seem to find the idea of log analysis attractive, would it be possible to have a bit more information about: * which logs *could* be kept with a simple flick switch * why those are not kept * whether they could be turned on for brief periods (like 24 hours) to allow periodic data collection * what alternative solutions might exist
It seems like there are at least three different places where log data could be collected: * on the mysql database - probably very "expensive" * on mediawiki (ie, in php code) - probably much more attractive, could add tuning to only record every 10th or 100th hit or whatever * on the "squids" (presumably, proxy servers) - no idea * some other web mechanism, like tomcat? or whatever web server is running (or is that squid??)
Is there absolutely no way that data could be collected at any of these points, even for short periods, and even filtered?
Steve