Thanks again Rob! Tracking pixel it is then :) Off to cobble some code together and test.
On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 3:42 AM, Rob S <[email protected]> wrote: > pub crawler wrote: >> >> We have a lot of logging going on in our applications. Logs pages, IP >> info, time date, URL parameters, etc. Since many pages are being >> served out of Varnish cache, they don't get logged by our >> application. >> >> How is anyone else out there working around this sort of problem with >> an existing application? Considering a 1x1 graphic file inclusion >> into our pages to facilitate logging and ensuring Varnish doesn't >> cache it > > We've not reported analytics based on raw Apache logs for a long time - > they're far too polluted by spiders etc. So, instead, for RSS we use > Feedburner (who provide stats, and reduce our traffic load), and for general > web access we either use Google Analytics (or commercial alternatives). > Google Analytics allows you to add and report on custom parameters, so it > is very flexible. However, as you suggested, an alternative is to use a > tracking pixel. Depending on how you've previously processed your > information, you may find it very useful to encourage Varnish to route all > hits to your tracking pixel to a specific server (obviously with failover). > This'd save you having to aggregate logs across multiple servers. > > Rob > _______________________________________________ varnish-misc mailing list [email protected] http://projects.linpro.no/mailman/listinfo/varnish-misc
