Introduction to Log Parser-Week 39

You can find this week’s video here.

Log Parser is a powerful tool that every web administrator should become familiar with. With Log Parser we can do deep troubleshooting and data mining of the IIS Logs, Event Viewer, the File System, other file types and more.

Useful examples of parsing the IIS logs include: finding long running pages, finding all error pages with a 500 status code, all requests from a particular IP (potential hacking attempt), and much more.

This week is an introduction to Log Parser with walkthroughs covering Event Viewer, IIS logs, various filtering, different output formats, how to find your own way around, Log Parser Lizard GUI, and more. Log parser is a tool that no web administrator should be without.

This is now the 39th week of the entire series. You can view past and future weeks here: http://dotnetslackers.com/projects/LearnIIS7/

You can find this week’s video here.