[Icecast] CONNECTION STATS

[Richard Bartholomew]

Thank you, Philipp, both points were very helpful. I see that in the config file, I can specify the name of the error log so think I'll rename it to avoid myself future confusion!

Regards
Richard Bartholomew


-----Original Message-----
From: Philipp Schafft <phschafft at de.loewenfelsen.net> 
Sent: 15 February 2022 18:02
To: rlbart53 at gmail.com; 'Icecast streaming server user discussions' <icecast at xiph.org>
Subject: Re: [Icecast] CONNECTION STATS

Good evening,

On Tue, 2022-02-15 at 17:00 +0000, Richard Bartholomew wrote:
> 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.

The access.log logs every access. As connect and disconnect is the same access the log will contain one line.

The timestamp is the time of disconnect. The last value is how long a client was connected in seconds. If you subtract that from the timestamp you get the connection timestamp.


> 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?

The error.log serves as a general log file. In contrast to the other logs it is not meant to be machine readable but to be meaningful to an administrator solving some problem. So it does not only contain errors but everything that is important to such an administrator.

Hope that answer was helpful and cleared a bit of the mist.

With best regards,

> -----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.


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