Collect logs in IIS mode

Procedure

1. Log on to the Log Service console.
2. In the Import Data section, select IIS - Text Log.
3. Select a destination project and Logstore, and then click Next.
   You can also click Create Now to create a project and a Logstore.
4. Create a machine group.
   • If a machine group is available, click Using Existing Machine Groups.
   • If no machine groups are available, perform the following steps to create a machine group. In this example, an ECS instance is used.
     1. On the ECS Instances tab, select the destination ECS instance and click Execute Now.

        For more information, see Install Logtail on ECS instances.

        Note If you need to collect logs from self-managed clusters or servers of third-party cloud service providers, you must install Logtail. For more information, see Install Logtail in Linux or Install Logtail in Windows.
     2. After the installation, click Complete Installation.
     3. On the Create machine group page, enter a Name and click Next.

        Log Service allows you to create IP address-based machine groups and custom ID-based machine groups. For more information, see Create an IP address-based machine group and Create a custom ID-based machine group.

5. Select and move the destination machine group from Source Server Groups to Applied Server Groups, and then click Next.
   Notice If you want to apply a machine group immediately after it is created, the heartbeat status of the machine group may be FAIL. This issue occurs because no servers in the machine group have not been connected to Log Service. In this case, you can click Automatic Retry. If the issue persists, see What can I do if the Logtail client has no heartbeat?
6. In the Logtail Config step, create a Logtail configuration.
   

   Parameter	Description
   Config Name	The name of the Logtail configuration. The name must be unique in a project and cannot be modified after the Logtail configuration is created. You can also click Import Other Configuration to import a Logtail configuration from another project.
   Log Path	The directories and files from which logs are collected. The file names can be complete names or names that contain wildcards. For more information, see Wildcard matching. If these files match the specified pattern, the files in all levels of subdirectories under a specified directory are monitored. Examples: /apsara/nuwa/**/*.log indicates that the files whose name is suffixed by .log in the /apsara/nuwa directory and its recursive sub-directories are monitored. /var/logs/app_*/*.log indicates that each file that meets the following conditions is monitored: The file name contains .log. The file is stored in a subdirectory (at all levels) of the /var/logs directory. The name of the subdirectory matches the app_* pattern. Note By default, each log file can be collected by using only one Logtail configuration. To use multiple Logtail configurations to collect one log file, we recommend that you create a symbolic link that points to the directory where the file is located. For example, you want to collect two copies of the log.log file from the /home/log/nginx/log/log.log directory. You can run the following command to create a symbolic link that points to the directory. When you configure the Logtail configurations, use the original path in one Logtail configuration and use the symbolic link in the other Logtail configuration. ln -s /home/log/nginx/log /home/log/nginx/link_log You can use only asterisks (*) and question marks (?) as wildcard characters in the log path.
   Blacklist	If you turn on the Blacklist switch, you can configure a blacklist to skip the specified directories or files when you collect logs. You can use exact match or wildcard match to specify directories and files. Examples: If you select Filter by Directory from the Filter Type drop-down list and enter /home/admin/dir1 in the Content column, all files in the /home/admin/dir1 directory are skipped. If you select Filter by Directory from the Filter Type drop-down list and enter /home/admin/dir* in the Content column, the files in all subdirectories whose names are prefixed by dir in the /home/admin/ directory are skipped. If you select Filter by Directory from the Filter Type drop-down list and enter /home/admin/*/dir in the Content column, all files in the dir subdirectory (level-2 directory) of in the /home/admin/ directory are skipped. For example, the files in the /home/admin/a/dir directory are skipped, but the files in the /home/admin/a/b/dir directory are collected. If you select Filter by File from the Filter Type drop-down list and enter /home/admin/private*.log in the Content column, all files whose names are prefixed by private and suffixed by .log in the /home/admin/ directory are skipped. If you select Filter by File from the Filter Type drop-down list and enter /home/admin/private*/*_inner.log in the Content column, all files whose names are suffixed by _inner.log and prefixed by private in the /home/admin/ directory are skipped. For example, the /home/admin/private/app_inner.log file is skipped, but the /home/admin/private/app.log file is collected. Note You can use only asterisks (*) and question marks (?) as wildcard characters in the log path. The blacklist matching process has computational overhead. We recommend that you specify less than 10 blacklist entries.
   Docker File	If you collect logs from Docker containers, you can turn on the Docker File switch and configure the paths and tags of the containers. Logtail monitors the containers when they are created and destroyed, filters the logs of the containers by tag, and collects the filtered logs. For more information about container text logs, see Use the console to collect Kubernetes text logs in DaemonSet mode.
   Mode	The default value is IIS Configuration Mode. You can change the mode. For more information about how to configure other modes, see Overview.
   Log Format	Select the log format of the logs that are generated on the IIS server. IIS: Microsoft IIS log file format NCSA: NCSA Common log file format W3C: W3C Extended log file format
   IIS Configuration	Configure the IIS configuration fields. If you select IIS or NCSA in the Log Format field, the IIS configuration fields are automatically generated. If you select W3C in the Log Format field, enter the content that is specified in the logFile logExtFileFlags field of the IIS configuration file. logExtFileFlags="Date, Time, ClientIP, UserName, SiteName, ComputerName, ServerIP, Method, UriStem, UriQuery, HttpStatus, Win32Status, BytesSent, BytesRecv, TimeTaken, ServerPort, UserAgent, Cookie, Referer, ProtocolVersion, Host, HttpSubStatus" Default path of the IIS5 configuration file: C:\WINNT\system32\inetsrv\MetaBase.bin Default path of the IIS6 configuration file: C:\WINDOWS\system32\inetsrv\MetaBase.xml Default path of the IIS7 configuration file: C:\Windows\System32\inetsrv\config\applicationHost.config
   IIS Key Name	Log Service extracts IIS key names based on the IIS Configuration parameter.
   Drop Failed to Parse Logs	If you turn on the Drop Failed to Parse Logs switch, logs that fail to be parsed are not uploaded to Log Service. If you turn off the Drop Failed to Parse Logs switch, raw logs are uploaded to Log Service if the raw logs fail to be parsed.
   Maximum Directory Monitoring Depth	The maximum depth at which the specified log directory is monitored. Valid values: 0 to 1000. The value 0 specifies that only the directory that is specified in the log path is monitored.

   You can configure advanced settings based on your business requirements. We recommend that you do not modify the settings. The following table describes the parameters in the advanced settings.

   Parameter	Description
   Enable Plug-in Processing	If you turn on the Enable Plug-in Processing switch, you can configure the Logtail plug-in to process logs. For more information, see Overview. Note If you turn on the Enable Plug-in Processing switch, the Upload Raw Log, Timezone, Drop Failed to Parse Logs, Filter Configuration, and Incomplete Entry Upload (Delimiter mode) fields become unavailable.
   Upload Raw Log	If you turn on the Upload Raw Log switch, each raw log is uploaded to Log Service as a value of the __raw__ field together with the parsed log.
   Topic Generation Mode	The topic generation mode. For more information, see Log topics. Null - Do not generate topic: This mode is selected by default. In this mode, the topic field is set to an empty string. You do not need to enter a topic to query logs. Machine Group Topic Attributes: This mode is used to differentiate logs that are generated by different servers. File Path RegEx: In this mode, you must configure a regular expression in the Custom RegEx field. The part of a log path that matches the regular expression is used as the topic name. This mode is used to differentiate logs that are generated by different users or instances.
   Log File Encoding	The encoding format of the log file. Valid values: utf8 and gbk.
   Timezone	The time zone where logs are collected. Valid values: System Timezone: This option is selected by default. It indicates that the time zone where logs are collected is the same as the time zone to which the server belongs. Custom: Select a time zone.
   Timeout	The timeout period of log files. If a log file is not updated within the specified period, Logtail reckons the file to be timed out. Valid values: Never: All log files are continuously monitored and never time out. 30 Minute Timeout: If a log file is not updated within 30 minutes, Logtail reckons the file to be timed out and no longer monitors the file. If you select 30 Minute Timeout, you must specify the Maximum Timeout Directory Depth parameter. Valid values: 1 to 3.
   Filter Configuration	The filter conditions that are used to collect logs. Only logs that match the specified filter conditions are collected. Examples: Collect logs that meet a condition: If you set Key to level and Regex to WARNING|ERROR, only WARNING-level and ERROR-level logs are collected. Filter out logs that do not meet a condition. For more information, see Regular-Expressions.info. If you set Key to level and Regex to ^(?!.*(INFO|DEBUG)).*, INFO-level or DEBUG-level logs are not collected. If you set Key to url and Regex to .*^(?!.*(healthcheck)).*, logs whose URL contain healthcheck are not collected. For example, the log entry is not collected if the value of the Key field is url and the value of the Value field is /inner/healthcheck/jiankong.html. For more examples, see regex-exclude-word and regex-exclude-pattern.

   Click Next to complete the configuration and use Logtail to collect logs.

   Note

   • The Logtail configurations require at most 3 minutes to take effect.
   • If an error occurs when you use Logtail to collect logs, see Diagnose collection errors.
7. Preview the data, configure indexes, and then click Next.
   By default, Log Service enables the Full Text Index to query and analyze logs. You can also manually or automatically configure Field Search. For more information, see Configure indexes.

   Note

   • To query and analyze logs, you must enable the Full Text Index or Field Search. If you configure both of them, the settings of Field Search prevail.
   • If the data type of the index is long or double, the Case-Sensitive switch and the Delimiter field are unavailable.

Appendix: Sample logs and field descriptions

#Software: Microsoft Internet Information Services 7.5
#Version: 1.0
#Date: 2020-09-08 09:30:26
#Fields: date time s-sitename s-ip cs-method cs-uri-stem cs-uri-query s-port cs-username c-ip cs(User-Agent) sc-status sc-substatus sc-win32-status sc-bytes cs-bytes time-taken
2009-11-26 06:14:21 W3SVC692644773 125.67.67.* GET /index.html - 80 - 10.10.10.10 Baiduspider+(+http://www.baidu.com)200 0 64 185173 296 0