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Chris_Miller
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Sep 01, 2010

What to collect for HTTP - 500 Errors?

I'd like to log HTTP 500 errors but am unsure of what info to log. I know I can log IP::server_addr but what can I do as far as the URI a user was trying to hit that caused the error? when HTTP_RE...
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L4L7_53191
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Sep 02, 2010
Regarding what info the server is sending, I'd say it depends. For example, Apache may send a generic 500 Internal Server Error status page, while a Java container may send a full stack trace (which may or may not be useful to you). There are a lot of different ways it can pan out, so your idea is a good one Chris: pull out what data you care about and log that.

 

 

-Matt