ArcGIS Server -- Usage metering in logs settings

Question

Hey,

Is anyone aware what "Usage metering enabled" parameter in admin/logs/settings do?

I've tried:

- checking the documentation of ArcGISServer and REST API

- googling

- browsing the community

In the REST API is it not even mentioned as valid parameter.

Kind regards,

Yanu

OzanCanT · Answer

Hello @Yanu ,

I believe this option currently does not affect the server logs, as I looked this up on internal sources. The same source also states that usage metering may be implemented in a future release.

Hope this helps.

JoshuaBixby · Answer

Very much undocumented from the Esri side; however, a couple Esri staff did chime in on comments from a non-Esri blog post over a decade ago:

From Exploring ArcGIS Server 10.1 Logs (Part 2) | Geodatabase Geek:

* Trevor H on 04/06/2013 at 09:08 said:Looks like the setting (in 10.2 at least) adds some additional usage monitoring. It adds INFO level entries such as the following;

outBytes=9928; numObjects=1; costUnits=1.000000; taskName=export

So I assume they are AGOL related. The outBytes could be useful for capacity planning. Also still no mention of this option in the help at 10.2.

* Vivek Gupta on 16/07/2013 at 06:38 said:The usage metering enables the user to log information about usage for billing purposes. When you enable this option ArcGIS Server logs information at the INFO level about the usage parameters which includes cpu, bandwidth, number of features/request etc… This information then is reported to the owning portal.
Portal administrators can then use this information to bill the consuming users and users can view their usage.