Internet Information Services (IIS) 7.0 Resource Kit

Logging Analysis Using Log Parser

A chapter on logging would not be complete without mentioning Log Parser. This is one of the most useful tools for searching your logs. Teaching you Log Parser is beyond the scope of this book, but we’ll give you some examples you can use in your environment. You can download Log Parser at http://www.iis.net/go/1287.

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Members of the Microsoft.com team are big fans of Log Parser. Take a look at this Web site for an article that discusses how they use Log Parser: http://blogs.technet.com/mscom/archive/2005/10/19/412745.aspx.

Here are three examples of using Log Parser to extract common information from your IIS logs: ...