Showing posts with label Logging. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Logging. Show all posts

Friday, September 15, 2017

Logging IIS POSTS

Have you ever needed to see the raw POSTS coming into your IIS-hosted web site, but don't want to change code to write it to a file?  Well, there is an easy way:

  • Bring up IIS Manager
  • Find the Site you want to log, and click on it
  • Click the IIS icon, "Failed Request Tracing Rules".  Even though it says failed requests, it also will do successful requests.

  • Select "Add..." in the right menu
  • Select "All Content (*)" and "Next"












  • Then put "200" in the "Status Codes" box.  You could add a range to get all requests: "200-999"



  • Then press "Next",  "Finish"


A new folder under your default logs root will be built called "FailedReqLogFiles".   You will see it get filled with XML files that exhaustively log every aspect of all posts.

Remember - Don't leave it on long or it will blast your storage with tens of thousands of files.