[Icecast] CONNECTION STATS

[Richard Bartholomew]

Hi,

Although I find connection details in the access.log file showing a status of 200, I am not sure what to look for for a successful disconnect.  However, I discovered that I can find both successful connect and disconnect information in error.log!  This confuses me even more as I would not expect to find successful events in an error log!

Can anyone explain why the info is in the error log rather than the access log, please?

As always, thanks for any help.

Regards
Richard Bartholomew


-----Original Message-----
From: Philipp Schafft <phschafft at de.loewenfelsen.net> 
Sent: 14 February 2022 15:29
To: rlbart53 at gmail.com; Icecast streaming server user discussions <icecast at xiph.org>
Subject: Re: [Icecast] CONNECTION STATS

Good afternoon,

On Mon, 2022-02-14 at 12:29 +0000, Richard Bartholomew wrote:
> Hi,
>  
> Is there a way, please, of being able to see historical connection 
> details in V2.4.4? For example, I wish to be able to see when a 
> presenter disconnected from the server and the following one connected 
> in order to be able to troubleshoot a problem. Since the incident, 
> there have been subsequent connections and, so, the admin page doesn't 
> show the info I'm after as it shows the current status.
> 

> I've had a look through the access.log file

that is exactly the place go to for.


> but this doesn't seem to detail when a streaming connection is made or 
> dropped. The software being used for streaming is Station Playlist and 
> I can see lots of entries for this but it all seems to be related to 
> getting listener stats!
>  
> Maybe I'm not interpreting the access.log correctly but if anyone can 
> shed any light upon what I'm trying to do, I'd really appreciate it.

I think you might have missed the important lines all the data.

Source connections are, generally speaking, using PUT or SOURCE. The status code reflects the status of the mounting, so if a source successfully mounted the status will be a 200.


With best regards,

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