Apache combined log format with Traffic Server


If you’re using apache traffic server, all of your traffic is going through your proxy, not your web server.  This is a problem if you rely on your logs for visitor data.

You can get traffic server to output logs in apache’s combined log format, though.  Then you just feed traffic server’s logs to your log analysis app.

Here’s how to do it:

Edit /usr/local/etc/trafficserver/logs_xml.config

Add these lines to the bottom:

<LogFormat>
    <Format = "%<chi> - - [%<cqtn>] \"%<cqhm> %<cquup>\" %<pssc> %<psql> \"%<{Referer}cqh>\" \"%<{User-Agent}cqh>\"" />
    <Name = "httpd_combined"/>
</LogFormat>
<LogObject>
    <Format = "httpd_combined"/>
    <Filename = "access"/>
</LogObject>

Edit /usr/local/etc/trafficserver/logs_records.config

Change

CONFIG proxy.config.log.custom_logs_enabled INT 0

to

CONFIG proxy.config.log.custom_logs_enabled INT 1

Then restart traffic server

trafficserver restart

Now you’ll have an apache combined log file in /usr/local/var/log/trafficserver/access.log

You can read more about apache traffic server’s logging options here and the log formats here.