[lopsa-tech] Server Overload and Log Processing

2015-08-21 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (lopser)
I want to know if a web server gets overrun by too much traffic requests. I certainly know how to monitor memory, and tweak the MPM and stuff in apache config files, but I assume if it runs out of threads or memory or anything, it will throw errors into the log file, which are immediately buried

Re: [lopsa-tech] Server Overload and Log Processing

2015-08-21 Thread Adam Moskowitz
Edward Ned Harvey (lopser) wrote: > I want to know if a web server gets overrun by too much traffic requests. First you need to define "overrun." Not for the mailing list, but for yourself. > I'm looking for something that knows how to process the logs of . . . Assuming you want to know of the p

[lopsa-tech] Firewall change requests -- Looking for a solution

2015-08-21 Thread john boris
Here at $WORK we have a distributed Web Filtering system. We have just started looking to streamline the process. I figured that other large school districts have done this already or attempted it so I will ask here. We have 18 High Schools and 140 Elementary schools. The Filtering is local but ma

Re: [lopsa-tech] Server Overload and Log Processing

2015-08-21 Thread Doug Hughes
There's something else you should consider at the same time. There are many ways that you can setup connection throttling such that the web server is prevented from being overrun in some of the more obvious ways that you might not want. There are plugin modules for bandwidth limiting, but you c

Re: [lopsa-tech] Server Overload and Log Processing

2015-08-21 Thread Hans van der Made
Personally, I'd look into parsing the mod_status output first. Access logs tend to grow quickly, so that's a lot of reading. logstash might help you make sense of all kinds of logs. Best, Hans NL On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 3:10 PM, Edward Ned Harvey (lopser) < lop...@nedharvey.com> wrote: > I wan