[squid-users] Collecting squid logs to DB

Tue May 15 17:57:09 UTC 2018

I updated the repo: http://gogs.ngtech.co.il/elicro/squid-sql-logger

The additions are:

-          GoLang mysql logging service source code.

-          Static pre-compiled binaries for(linux, windows, all bsd, Darwin, linux_arm.. , linux_mips...).

-          Installation instructions for the pre-compiled binaries for linux_amd64 version.

Tested to work under very high load.

There is one improvement I had in mind but I will add it later on.

All The Bests,

Eliezer

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 <http://ngtech.co.il/lmgtfy/> Eliezer Croitoru
Linux System Administrator
Mobile: +972-5-28704261
Email: eliezer at ngtech.co.il

From: Alex K <rightkicktech at gmail.com> 
Sent: Sunday, May 13, 2018 14:23
To: Eliezer Croitoru <eliezer at ngtech.co.il>
Cc: squid-users at lists.squid-cache.org
Subject: Re: [squid-users] Collecting squid logs to DB

Thanx Eliezer and Amos for the feedback. I just saw the logformat directive and will experiment with that.

Yes, I have a small group of users (up to 30 - 40 devices) but the hardware is a relatively small appliance (4G RAM, 4 cores 2GHz, SSD).

Alex

On Sun, May 13, 2018, 11:37 Eliezer Croitoru <eliezer at ngtech.co.il <mailto:eliezer at ngtech.co.il> > wrote:

To lose the stress on the DB you can use a custom format as Amos suggested but..

I think that when you will define and write what you want to log exactly you will get what you need and want.

The general squid access log is pretty lose and I believe that with these days hardware the difference will only be seen on systems with thousands or millions of clients requests.

If this is a small place it’s not required.

All The Bests,

Eliezer

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Eliezer Croitoru
Linux System Administrator
Mobile: +972-5-28704261
Email: eliezer at ngtech.co.il <mailto:eliezer at ngtech.co.il> 

From: Alex K <rightkicktech at gmail.com <mailto:rightkicktech at gmail.com> > 
Sent: Sunday, May 13, 2018 01:56
To: Eliezer Croitoru <eliezer at ngtech.co.il <mailto:eliezer at ngtech.co.il> >
Cc: squid-users at lists.squid-cache.org <mailto:squid-users at lists.squid-cache.org> 
Subject: Re: [squid-users] Collecting squid logs to DB

+++ Including list +++

Hi Eliezer, 

I have used the following lines to instruct squid to log at mariadb: 

logfile_daemon /usr/lib/squid/log_db_daemon
access_log daemon:/127.0.0.1/squid_log/access_log/squid/squid squid

Through testing it seems that sometimes squid is not logging anything. I don't know why. After a restart it seems to unblock and write to DB. 

The access_log table is currently InnoDB and I am wondering if MyISAM will behave better. 

I would prefer if I could have real time access log. My scenario is that when a user disconnects from squid, an aggregated report of the sites that the user browsed will be available under some web portal where the user has access. Usually there will be up to 20 users connected concurrently so I have to check if this approach is scalable. If this approach is not stable then I might go with log parsing (perhaps logstash or some custom parser) which will parse and generate an aggregated report once per hour or day. 

Is there a way I format the log and pipe to DB only some interesting fields in order to lessen the stress to DB?

On Sun, May 13, 2018 at 1:25 AM, Eliezer Croitoru <eliezer at ngtech.co.il <mailto:eliezer at ngtech.co.il> > wrote:

Hey Alex,

How did you used to log into the DB? What configuration lines have you used?

Also what log format have you used?

Is it important to have realtime data in the DB or a periodic parsing is also an option?

Eliezer

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Eliezer Croitoru
Linux System Administrator
Mobile: +972-5-28704261
Email: eliezer at ngtech.co.il <mailto:eliezer at ngtech.co.il> 

From: squid-users <squid-users-bounces at lists.squid-cache.org <mailto:squid-users-bounces at lists.squid-cache.org> > On Behalf Of Alex K
Sent: Saturday, May 5, 2018 01:20
To: squid-users at lists.squid-cache.org <mailto:squid-users at lists.squid-cache.org> 
Subject: [squid-users] Collecting squid logs to DB

Hi all, 

I had a previous setup on Debian 7 with squid and I was using mysar to collect squid logs and store them to DB and provide some browsing report at the end of the day. 

Now at Debian 9, trying to upgrade the whole setup, I see that mysar does not compile. 

Checking around I found mysar-ng but this has compilation issues on Debian 9 also. 

Do you suggest any tool that does this job? Does squid support logging to DB natively? (I am using mysql/mariadb)

Some other tool I stumbled on is https://github.com/paranormal/blooper. 

Thanx a bunch,

Alex

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