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Jim_M's avatar
Jim_M
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Jul 26, 2019

iRule for logging backend responses

My current connection debugging iRule includes a HTTP_RESPONSE section which makes use of the HTTP::status codes returned by a pool member. However are there any other inclusions i could make to gat...
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Dario_Garrido
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Jul 26, 2019

Hello Jim.

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Better than using an iRule is to set a request-logging profile. It gives you the chance to log a lot of variables from a request and response perspective. Also you can log any http header using "$<header_name>". It's more efficient than other solutions.

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REF - https://techdocs.f5.com/kb/en-us/products/big-ip_ltm/manuals/product/bigip-external-monitoring-implementations-12-1-2/2.html

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KR,

Dario.