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What Your Web Server Log Can Tell You
Web servers tell us an amazing amount about the general health of our systems, provided we are prepared to do the forensic analysis. For commercial purposes, we can analyze the logs to produce visitor traffic metrics that we can publish to our clients and attract more advertising revenue. From a workflow and systems engineering point of view, the error logs and failed requests tell us what we need to fix in our content system.
Automate the creation of content maintenance requests by scanning the web server logs for errors. Quite separately from the normal traffic analysis, you can scan for 404 errors. These ...
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