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Add tracking IDs to your web application

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With a complex multi-tier stack with HTTP requests getting proxied it can be difficult to track a request as it goes around the system. One thing you can do is enable mod_unique_id in apache – this creates a distinct environment variable UNIQUE_ID in the web server context for each incoming request. Simply loading the module …

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Create a separate Apache log for netscaler heartbeat

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If you are running your Apache instances through Netscalers and want to avoid cluttering your logs with Netscaler heartbeat calls, try the below: # Dont log netscaler heartbeats and log ns requests from the CLIENT-IP header and not %a (via combinedtimens) LogFormat “%a %l %u %t \”%r\” %>s %b \”%{Referer}i\” \”%{User-Agent}i\” %D” combinedtime LogFormat “%{CLIENT-IP}i …

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