IIS 7

The IIS 7 App monitors the performance and reliability of your Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) infrastructure, identifying customer-facing and internal operational issues. Additionally, you can monitor customer paths and interactions to learn how customers are using your product. The app consists of predefined searches and Dashboards, which provide visibility into your environment for real time or historical analysis.

Log types

IIS 7 Logs (IIS 7.5 logs are used) are generated as local files and written to this directory by default: C:\inetpub\Logs\LogFiles\W3SVC1. The App assumes the following format:

# Fields: date time s-ip cs-method cs-uri-stem cs-uri-query s-port
cs-username c-ip cs(User-Agent) sc-status sc-substatus
sc-win32-status time-taken

For details on setting fields to log, see http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc754702(v=ws.10).aspx.

Sumo Logic expects W3C format with these fields for our Field Extraction Rules and IIS 7 Application: (https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms525807(v=vs.90).aspx).

• Date
• Time
• ServerIP
• Method
• UriStem
• UriQuery
• Server Port
• UserName
• ClientIP
• UserAgent
• Referer
• Protocol Status
• Protocol Substatus
• Win32Status
• TimeTaken

For more information about the IIS 7 log (IIS 7.5 logs are used) format, see https://www.iis.net/learn/manage/provisioning-and-managing-iis/configure-logging-in-iis.

Sample log messages

2016-11-17 22:34:34 10.0.0.167 GET /favicon.ico - 80 - 12.177.21.34 Mozilla/5.0+(Macintosh;+Intel+Mac+OS+X+10_7_5)+AppleWebKit/537.36+(KHTML,+like+Gecko)+Chrome/27.0.1453.110+Safari/537.36 404 0 2 1405 547 78
2016-11-17 22:34:34 10.0.0.98 GET /Trade/Images/VS-ConfigWeb.png - 80 - 156.74.250.7 Mozilla/5.0+(Windows+NT+6.1;+WOW64;+rv:14.0)+Gecko/20100101+Firefox/14.0.1 304 0 0 209 748 7

Sample queries

The following query samples are taken from the IIS 7 App.

The following query is taken from the the Requests by App Over Time panel on the IIS 7 Traffic Insights - App Requests Dashboard.

Requests by App Over Time

_sourceCategory=IIS*
| parse regex "\d+-\d+-\d+ \d+:\d+:\d+ (?<server_ip>\S+) (?<method>\S+) (?<cs_uri_stem>/\S+?) "
| parse regex field=cs_uri_stem "/(?<app>[^\./]+)/" nodrop
| if (isNull(app) || app="","Others",app) as app
| timeslice 1m
| count by app,_timeslice  
| transpose row _timeslice column app

The following query is taken from the OSes and Browsers panel of the IIS 7 Traffic Insights - Content and Client Platform Dashboard.

Operating Systems (OSes) and Browsers

_sourceCategory=IIS*
| parse regex "\d+-\d+-\d+ \d+:\d+:\d+ (?<server_ip>\S+) (?<method>\S+) (?<cs_uri_stem>/\S+?) \S+ \d+ (?<user>\S+) (?<client_ip>[\.\d]+) (?<agent>\S+) "
| if ((agent matches "*Windows NT*") or (agent matches "*Windows+NT*") or (agent matches "*Windows *") or (agent matches "*Win32*") or (agent matches "*Win64*"), "Windows", "Other") as OS |
if (agent matches "*Macintosh*","MacOS",OS) as OS |
if ((agent matches "*Windows Phone*") or (agent matches "*Windows+Phone*"),"Windows Phone",OS) as OS |
if (agent matches "*Linux*","Linux",OS) as OS |
if (agent matches "*iPad*","iPad",OS) as OS |
if (agent matches "*iPhone*","iPhone",OS) as OS |
if (agent matches "*Android*","Android",OS) as OS |
if (agent matches "*Darwin*","Darwin",OS) as OS |
if (agent matches "*CrOS*","Google Chrome",OS) as OS |
if (agent matches "*MSIE*","Internet Explorer","Other") as Browser |
if (agent matches "Internet Explorer","Internet Explorer", Browser) as Browser |
if (agent matches "*Trident*","Internet Explorer", Browser) as Browser |
if (agent matches "*Firefox*","Firefox",Browser) as Browser |
if (agent matches "*Safari*","Safari", Browser) as Browser |
if (agent matches "*Chrome*","Chrome", Browser) as Browser |
if (agent matches "Opera*","Opera", Browser) as Browser |
if (agent matches "Dolphin*","Dolphin", Browser) as Browser
| count(agent) by OS,Browser
| transpose row os column browser as *

Collecting logs for IIS 7

This procedure explains how to enable logging from Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) on your Windows server and ingest the logs into Sumo Logic.

Prerequisites

To prepare for logging IIS 7 events, perform the following two tasks.

To enable logging on your IIS Server, do the following:

1. Open the Sever Manager Console
2. Select Roles
3. Select Web Server (IIS)
4. Select the host from which to collect IIS logs
5. In the right-hand pane, select Logging
6. For the option One log file per select Site
7. For the Log File Format, choose W3C so that you can select the fields to log
8. Click Select Fields, and then select the checkboxes for these fields:

Sumo Logic expects these fields in IIS logs for the IIS 7 Application and Field Extraction Rule by default.

• Date
• Time
• ServerIP
• Method
• UriStem
• UriQuery
• Server Port
• UserName
• ClientIP
• UserAgent
• Referer
• Protocol Status
• Protocol Substatus
• Win32Status
• TimeTaken

1. Click OK to save your configuration

To confirm that the log files are being created, do the following:

1. Open a command-line window and change directories to C:\inetpub\Logs\LogFiles. This is the same path you will enter when you configure the Source to collect these files.
2. Under the \W3SVC1 directory, you should see one or more files with a .log extension. If the file is present, you can collect it.

Step 1: Configure a Collector

Configure an Installed Collector (Windows). Sumo Logic recommends that you install the collector on the same system that hosts the logs.

Step 2: Configure a Source

To collect logs from IIS 7, use an Installed Collector and a Local File Source. You may also configure a Remote File Source, but the configuration is more complex. Sumo Logic recommends using a Local File Source if possible.

1. Configure a Local File Source.
2. Configure the Local File Source Fields as follows:
   1. Name: Required (for example, "IIS")
   2. Description. (Optional)
   3. File Path (Required).C:\inetpub\Logs\LogFiles\W3SVC1\*.log
   4. Collection start time. Choose how far back you would like to begin collecting historical logs. For example, choose 7 days ago to being collecting logs with a last modified date within the last seven days.
   5. Source Host. Sumo Logic uses the hostname assigned by the operating system by default, but you can enter a different host name.
   6. Source Category (Required). For example, "IIS_prod". (The Source Category metadata field is a fundamental building block to organize and label Sources. For details, see Best Practices.)
3. Configure the Advanced section: 7. Timestamp Parsing Settings: Make sure the setting matches the timezone on the log files. 8. Enable Timestamp Parsing: Select Extract timestamp information from log file entries. 9. Time Zone: Select the option to Use time zone from log file. If none is present use: and set the timezone to UTC. 10. Timestamp Format: Select the option to Automatically detect the format. 11. Encoding. UTF-8 is the default, but you can choose another encoding format from the menu if your IIS logs are encoded differently. 12. Enable Multiline Processing. Disable the option to Detect messages spanning multiple lines. Because IIS logs are single line log files, disabling this option will improve performance of the collection and ensure that your messages are submitted correctly to Sumo Logic.
4. Click Save.

After a few minutes, your new Source should be propagated down to the Collector and will begin submitting your IIS log files to the Sumo Logic service.

Field Extraction Rules

• Name: Microsoft IIS Logs
• Scope: Use the source category set above, such as "IIS_prod"
• Parse Expression:

parse regex "^[^#].*?(?<s_ip>\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}) (?<cs_method>\S+?)
(?<cs_uri_stem>\S+?) (?<cs_uri_query>\S+?) (?<s_port>\d+?) (?<cs_username>\S+?)
(?<c_ip>.+?) (?<cs_User_Agent>\S+?) (?<cs_Referer>\S+?) (?<sc_status>\d+?)
(?<sc_substatus>\d+?) (?<sc_win32_status>\d+?) (?<time_taken>\d+?)$"

Installing the IIS 7 App

Now that you have set up collection for IIS 7, install the Sumo Logic App for IIS 7 to use the preconfigured searches and dashboards that monitor log events generated by IIS 7.

To install the app:

1. Select App Catalog.
2. In the 🔎 Search Apps field, run a search for your desired app, then select it.
3. Click Install App.
   note

   Sometimes this button says Add Integration.

4. On the next configuration page, under Select Data Source for your App, complete the following fields:
   • Data Source. Select one of the following options:
     • Choose Source Category and select a source category from the list; or
     • Choose Enter a Custom Data Filter, and enter a custom source category beginning with an underscore. For example, _sourceCategory=MyCategory.
   • Folder Name. You can retain the existing name or enter a custom name of your choice for the app.
   • All Folders (optional). The default location is the Personal folder in your Library. If desired, you can choose a different location and/or click New Folder to add it to a new folder.
5. Click Next.
6. Look for the dialog confirming that your app was installed successfully.
   

Post-installation

Once your app is installed, it will appear in your Personal folder or the folder that you specified. From here, you can share it with other users in your organization. Dashboard panels will automatically start to fill with data matching the time range query received since you created the panel. Results won't be available immediately, but within about 20 minutes, you'll see completed graphs and maps.

Viewing IIS 7 Dashboards

Each dashboard has a set of filters that you can apply to the entire dashboard, as shown in the following example. Click the funnel icon in the top dashboard menu bar to display a scrollable list of filters that are applied across the entire dashboard.

You can use filters to drill down and examine the data on a granular level.

Each panel has a set of filters that are applied to the results for that panel only, as shown in the following example. Click the funnel icon in the top panel menu bar to display a list of panel-specific filters.

Overview Dashboard

The IIS 7 - Overview Dashboard provides a high-level view of user visits by country, the number of requests and the response time, top applications used to make requests, operating systems (OSes) used, and the number of server errors.

Server Operation - Errors

The IIS 7 - Server Operation - Errors Dashboard provides information on server errors by IP address, response code trends, HTTP errors by server IP address, and client errors by IP address.

Server Operation - Requests and Response Time

The IIS 7 - Server Operation - Requests and Response Time Dashboard provides information on requests by server IP address, the top 10 slowest web pages, the number of requests and the response time per timeslice, top 10 server IP addresses response throughput time in bytes per second, and cumulative response times percentiles.

Traffic Insights - Apps and Requests

The IIS 7 - Traffic Insights - Apps and Requests Dashboard provides information on the requests made by each application, the top 10 applications and the number of requests received, the top 10 users making requests, cumulative user request percentiles, the top 10 clients by IP address and the number of requests made, and cumulative client request percentiles.

Traffic Insights - Content and Client Platform

The IIS 7 - Traffic Insights - Content and Client Platform Dashboard provides information on the number of media file types requested, the top 10 documents requested, the operating systems and web browsers used by visitors, and the operating system platforms used by visitors.

Visitor Insights

The IIS 7 - Visitor Insights Dashboard provides information on the geographic locations and number of users by client IP address, the number of visitors per country, locations and number of users by client IP address by US state, and the number of visitors per US state.