Contents of HTTP request logs
The files that are shipped by HTTP request Log Shipping are written as a series of gzipped JSON files. An example record in a log file:
{
"client_site_id": "000",
"remote_user": "",
"request_url": "/",
"wplogin": "-",
"timestamp": "19/May/2020:17:03:58 +0000",
"request_type": "GET",
"scheme": "https",
"http_referer": "https://example.com/",
"http_x_forwarded_for": "",
"true_client_ip": "",
"remote_addr": "127.0.0.1",
"asn": "2635",
"tls_version": "TLSv1.3",
"ssl_client_verify": "NONE",
"content_type": "text/html; charset=UTF-8",
"upstream_country_code": "GB",
"sent_cache_control": "max-age=300, must-revalidate",
"timestamp_iso8601": "2020-05-19T17:03:58+00:00",
"sent_vary": "Accept-Encoding",
"sent_x_cache": "hit",
"request_id": "81cd24c5c46d4c1aa0205dd8001cdba6",
"request_time": "0.001",
"http_host": "example.com",
"http_accept_language": "en-US,en;q=0.9",
"http_user_agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_4) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/81.0.4044.138 Safari/537.36",
"http_version": "HTTP/2.0",
"body_bytes_sent": "8981",
"status": "200",
"private_file": ""
}Description of fields
| Field | Description |
|---|---|
asn | The Autonomous System Number (ASN) of the remote_addr IP address |
body_bytes_sent | Total number of bytes sent to the client |
client_site_id | An internal ID unique to this environment |
content_type | The media type of the resource (e.g. text/html; charset=UTF-8) |
http_accept_language | The contents of the Accept-Language request HTTP header |
http_host | The domain (e.g. example.com) |
http_referer | The Referer request header, if available, contains the purported address of the web page from which a link to the currently requested page was followed. |
http_user_agent | The contents of the User-Agent request header |
http_version | HTTP protocol version |
http_x_forwarded_for | An HTTP header that is a means of logging a client’s originating IP address. |
private_file | This field will be empty for requests that do not include a /wp-content/uploads/ path. A value of 1 indicates a request to a file restricted by Access-controlled files, and a 0 for all other files. |
remote_addr | IP address of the client making the request (see also: true_client_ip and http_x_forwarded_for). |
remote_user | If the request was authenticated with HTTP Basic Authentication, this is the username value (the password is not logged). |
request_id | Unique request identifier, this value is set in the X-Request-ID HTTP request header which can be read by a WordPress or Node.js application. |
request_time | The time taken for the request. |
request_type | The HTTP method (e.g., GET, POST). |
request_url | The path of the resource that was fetched, not including elements that are included elsewhere such as the protocol (e.g. http://, see scheme), and the domain (e.g. example.com, see http_host). |
sent_cache_control | The contents of the Cache-Control HTTP response header. |
scheme | Either http or https. |
sent_vary | The contents of the Vary HTTP response header; note that VIP does not allow free use of the Vary header (e.g. Accept-Encoding). |
sent_x_cache | A header from the VIP platform indicating whether the response was from a cache hit, miss, or pass. |
ssl_client_verify | The result of client certificate verification: "SUCCESS", "FAILED:reason", and "NONE" if a certificate was not present. |
status | The HTTP response status code (e.g. 200, 404, etc.) |
timestamp | UTC date and time of the request |
timestamp_iso8601 | UTC date and time of the request in ISO format |
tls_version | TLS version used by the client. |
true_client_ip | A request header commonly set by reverse proxies, including Cloudflare, to indicate the remote address of the client they are forwarding requests for (see also: http_x_forwarded_for). |
upstream_country_code | All requests are geocoded by country (e.g., “US”, “GB”, etc.) at the edge of the VIP CDN using the incoming IP address. |
wplogin | The login name (i.e. user_login) of the authenticated WordPress user, if any; requests where there is no authenticated WordPress user this field will contain -. |
Last updated: February 13, 2024