NGINX Access Logs

[Steve Holdoway]

On Sat, 2015-01-10 at 09:50 -0500, exilemirror wrote:
> Hi guys,
> 
> I'm new to nginx. Can anyone explain what does  - - - "-" "-" "-" "-" -
> means in the access logs? Been getting lots of this in the log file.
> Would like to know if this is the cause of nginx to show that there's a
> spike in traffic through the nginx graph. Example of log below:
> 
> [12/Feb/2014:11:25:28 +0800] "POST /...svc HTTP/1.1" 200 274 1.68 870 0.008
> 0.002 192.168.10.71:84 - - - "-" "-" "-" "-" -
>                                                                        
> HTTP/1.1" 200 274 1.68 869 0.026 0.006 10.14.241.70:84 - - - "-" "-" "-" "-"
> -
> 
> Posted at Nginx Forum: http://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,256026,256026#msg-256026
> 

look in your nginx.conf. I have the following line

 	log_format  main	'$remote_addr - $remote_user [$time_local] "$request
"'
        			'$status $body_bytes_sent "$http_referer" '
        			'"$http_user_agent" "$http_x_forwarded_for"';

	access_log /var/log/nginx/access.log;
	error_log /var/log/nginx/error.log;

( sorry for the wrap )

Which itemises the fields. Obviously yours is different, but it'll give
you the list.

Steve
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