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Andrew_Saar_110
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Nov 22, 2006

Logging time it takes for http transaction

We're having a customer claim they're timing out when interfacing with a server via HTTP that passes through our BigIP. The end server does not see any issues and so I would like to log a message eac...
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Martin_Machacek
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Nov 22, 2006
V4.x iRules allow to log information only on request from client (using the log statement in a rule). Log output goes to syslog and because of that messages are timestamped (with 1 second resolution). There is no way how to log the end of a transaction via iRule (and as a matter of fact there is no easy way how to do it at all in v4.x).