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D.J
D.J

Reputation: 2534

Parsing iis log using worker role azure

on stand alone hosting environment. we use "scheduled service + powershell + log parser" to export iis log records into target database, and get all the stats that business dept. loves.

However when it comes to Azure, I am not sure if that is the right practice anymore.

I see people are exporting iis logs into azure storage. However we dont want to download the log files then exporting them into database from another server or local machine

I am wondering if there is anyone have done one step further i.e. export iis logs into azure storage table (make it query-able) by a worker role?

if there is anyone have done that or know any available solutions please pass on a link.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 865

Answers (1)

AvkashChauhan
AvkashChauhan

Reputation: 20556

Are you asking to analyze IIS logs by reading from Azure Blob Storage first, transferring to Azure Table storage in some easy to read/query format through a worker role? Great if you can add more on this regard to make it clear.

I personally think If you write a worker role to process stored IIS logs, It would be a very costly to just run a worker role for this purpose and that's why this is not a standard practice. Most 3rd party tool download the logs from Azure blob storage (wad-iis-failedreqlogfiles and wad-iis-logfiles containers) and analyze locally and it just cost little.

Here is an old command line sample to Download and Parse IIS Logs from Windows Azure using logparser (save to Azure Table Storage is not included) so you sure can put this together in a worker role and then add little more code to save your logs to Azure Table storage.

Upvotes: 2

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