tl;dr What is the format of .dat-i and .dat-u files in arggisssystem/statistics?
I'm trying to analyse usage patterns for our web services so I can optimise resource allocation (for example, increasing/decreasing running instances). I've tried a few methods that didn't quite work:
So I've found the place where the statistics are actually saved:
Location of files ^. Although at first menacing, both the .dat-i and the .dat-u files turned out to be structured like csv's.
Sample .dat-i ^
Sample .dat-u ^
So it seems I have managed to find all the statistics I could ever want in a simple machine-readable format that is well suited for statistical analysis. Hurrah! However, I'm not quite sure what most of the fields actually are.
The first field in both is an epoch timestamp in milliseconds. The second is the address of each service.
Then the .dat-i files have 4 other fields:
Wheras, the dat-u files have 7 other fields:
I have some of my own guesses for some of these, but it would be really helpful if any of you either know for sure what they are, have good guesses, or can point me to the documentation for this. Also, what is the difference between the dat.i and the dat.u files? Thanks for reading!
Stanley - what about the System Log Parser?
Bernie.
Thanks Bernie!
That's working wonders, I knew there had to be an easier way. Thanks so much for pointing it out.
Stanley