Re: Options for selective logging

2017-09-20 Thread Igor A. Ippolitov
Let me reply with a link: http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_split_clients_module.html You can either use split_clients to change upstream or to trigger logging with 'if' option of 'access_log' On 19.09.2017 21:17, mblancett wrote: I am looking for ways to target every Nth request into a v

Re: Options for selective logging

2017-09-19 Thread Peter Booth
What is your ultimate goal? You say that you want to replay 0.05% of traffic into a test environment. Are you wanting to capture real world data on a one off or ongoing basis? You say that this particular proxy is very busy. How busy? Is it hosted on a physical host or a virtual machine? If

Options for selective logging

2017-09-19 Thread mblancett
I am looking for ways to target every Nth request into a very busy proxy within an nginx configuration. This particular proxy is extremely busy and receives POSTs to a single URI, and taking an approach like sharding by IP would not be the kind of traffic sample we’re after. The long term goal her