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NAME

       log_db_daemon - Database logging daemon for Squid

       Version 0.5.

SYNOPSIS

       log_db_daemon DSN [options]

DESCRIPTION

       This program writes Squid access.log entries to a database.  Presently only accepts the
       squid native log format.

       The script has been developed and tested in the following environment:

       squid-2.7 Squid-3.2
       mysql 5.0.26 and 5.1
       perl 5.8.8
       OpenSUSE 10.2

OPTIONS

       DSN         Database DSN encoded as a path. This is sent as the access_log file path.

                   Sample configuration:
                     access_log daemon:/host/database/table/username/password squid

                     to leave a parameter unspecified use a double slash:
                     access_log daemon://database/table/username/password squid

                   Default "DBI:mysql:database=squid"

       --debug     Write debug info to stderr.

CONFIGURATION

   Squid configuration
       access_log directive

       The path to the access log file is used to provide the database connection parameters.

         access_log daemon:/mysql_host:port/database/table/username/password squid

       The 'daemon' prefix is mandatory and tells squid that the logfile_daemon helper is to be
       used instead of the normal file logging.

       The last parameter tells squid which log format to use when writing lines to the log
       daemon.  Presently squid format is supported.

       mysql_host:port
           Host where the mysql server is running. If left empty, 'localhost' is assumed.

       database
           Name of the database to connect to. If left empty, 'squid_log' is assumed.

       table
           Name of the database table where log lines are stored. If left empty, 'access_log' is
           assumed.

       username
           Username to use when connecting to the database. If left empty, 'squid' is assumed.

       password
           Password to use when connecting to the database. If left empty, no password is used.

       To leave all fields to their default values, you can use a single slash:

         access_log daemon:/ squid

       To specify only the database password, which by default is empty, you must leave
       unspecified all the other parameters by using null strings:

         access_log daemon://///password squid

       logfile_daemon directive

       This is the current way of telling squid where the logfile daemon resides.

         logfile_daemon /path/to/squid/libexec/logfile-daemon_mysql.pl

       The script must be copied to the location specified in the directive.

   Database configuration
       Let's call the database 'squid_log' and the log table 'access_log'. The username and
       password for the db connection will be both 'squid'.

       Database

       Create the database:

         CREATE DATABASE squid_log;

       User

       Create the user:

         GRANT INSERT,SELECT,CREATE ON squid_log.* TO 'squid'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'squid';
         FLUSH PRIVILEGES;

       Note that only CREATE, INSERT and SELECT privileges are granted to the 'squid' user. This
       ensures that the logfile daemon script cannot change or modify the log entries.

       Table

       The Daemon will attempt to initialize this table if none exists when it starts.

       The table created should look like:

         CREATE TABLE access_log (
           id                   INTEGER NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT PRIMARY KEY,
           time_since_epoch     DECIMAL(15,3),
           time_response        INTEGER,
           ip_client            CHAR(15),
           ip_server            CHAR(15),
           http_status_code     VARCHAR(10),
           http_reply_size      INTEGER,
           http_method          VARCHAR(20),
           http_url             TEXT,
           http_username        VARCHAR(20),
           http_mime_type       VARCHAR(50),
           squid_hier_status    VARCHAR(20),
           squid_request_status VARCHAR(20)
         );

DATA EXTRACTION

   Sample queries.
       Clients accessing the cache
             SELECT DISTINCT ip_client FROM access_log;

       Number of request per day
             SELECT
               DATE(FROM_UNIXTIME(time_since_epoch)) AS date_day,
               COUNT(*) AS num_of_requests
             FROM access_log
             GROUP BY 1
             ORDER BY 1;

       Request status count
           To obtain the raw count of each request status:

             SELECT squid_request_status, COUNT(*) AS n
             FROM access_log
             GROUP BY squid_request_status
             ORDER BY 2 DESC;

           To calculate the percentage of each request status:

             SELECT
               squid_request_status,
               (COUNT(*)/(SELECT COUNT(*) FROM access_log)*100) AS percentage
             FROM access_log
             GROUP BY squid_request_status
             ORDER BY 2 DESC;

           To distinguish only between HITs and MISSes:

             SELECT
               'hits',
               (SELECT COUNT(*)
               FROM access_log
               WHERE squid_request_status LIKE '%HIT%')
               /
               (SELECT COUNT(*) FROM access_log)*100
               AS percentage
             UNION
             SELECT
               'misses',
               (SELECT COUNT(*)
               FROM access_log
               WHERE squid_request_status LIKE '%MISS%')
               /
               (SELECT COUNT(*) FROM access_log)*100
               AS percentage;

       Response time ranges
             SELECT
               '0..500',
               COUNT(*)/(SELECT COUNT(*) FROM access_log)*100 AS percentage
             FROM access_log
             WHERE time_response >= 0 AND time_response < 500
             UNION
             SELECT
               '500..1000',
               COUNT(*)/(SELECT COUNT(*) FROM access_log)*100 AS percentage
             FROM access_log
             WHERE time_response >= 500 AND time_response < 1000
             UNION
             SELECT
               '1000..2000',
               COUNT(*)/(SELECT COUNT(*) FROM access_log)*100 AS percentage
             FROM access_log
             WHERE time_response >= 1000 AND time_response < 2000
             UNION
             SELECT
               '>= 2000',
               COUNT(*)/(SELECT COUNT(*) FROM access_log)*100 AS percentage
             FROM access_log
             WHERE time_response >= 2000;

       Traffic by mime type
             SELECT
               http_mime_type,
               SUM(http_reply_size) as total_bytes
             FROM access_log
             GROUP BY http_mime_type
             ORDER BY 2 DESC;

       Traffic by client
             SELECT
               ip_client,
               SUM(http_reply_size) AS total_bytes
             FROM access_log
             GROUP BY 1
             ORDER BY 2 DESC;

KNOWN ISSUES

   Speed issues
       The MyISAM storage engine is known to be faster than the InnoDB one, so although it
       doesn't support transactions and referential integrity, it might be more appropriate in
       this scenario. You might want to append "ENGINE=MYISAM" at the end of the table creation
       code in the above SQL script.

       Indexes should be created according to the queries that are more frequently run. The DDL
       script only creates an implicit index for the primary key column.

   Table cleanup
       This script currently implements only the "L" (i.e. "append a line to the log") command,
       therefore the log lines are never purged from the table. This approach has an obvious
       scalability problem.

       One solution would be to implement e.g. the "rotate log" command in a way that would
       calculate some summary values, put them in a "summary table" and then delete the lines
       used to calculate those values.

       Similar cleanup code could be implemented in an external script and run periodically
       independently from squid log commands.

   Testing
       This script has only been tested in low-volume scenarios (single client, less than 10
       req/s). Tests in high volume environments could reveal performance bottlenecks and bugs.

AUTHOR

       This program was written by Marcello Romani <marcello.romani@libero.it> , Amos Jeffries
       <amosjeffries@squid-cache.org>

COPYRIGHT

        * Copyright (C) 1996-2022 The Squid Software Foundation and contributors
        *
        * Squid software is distributed under GPLv2+ license and includes
        * contributions from numerous individuals and organizations.
        * Please see the COPYING and CONTRIBUTORS files for details.

       Copyright (C) 2008 by Marcello Romani

       This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same
       terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.8.8 or, at your option, any later version of
       Perl 5 you may have available.

QUESTIONS

       Questions on the usage of this program can be sent to the Squid Users mailing list
       <squid-users@lists.squid-cache.org>

REPORTING BUGS

       Bug reports need to be made in English.  See
       http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/BugReporting for details of what you need to include
       with your bug report.

       Report bugs or bug fixes using http://bugs.squid-cache.org/

       Report serious security bugs to Squid Bugs <squid-bugs@lists.squid-cache.org>

       Report ideas for new improvements to the Squid Developers mailing list
       <squid-dev@lists.squid-cache.org>

SEE ALSO

       squid (8), GPL (7),

       The Squid FAQ wiki http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq

       The Squid Configuration Manual http://www.squid-cache.org/Doc/config/