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GeoServer Cookbook

By : Stefano Iacovella
Book Image

GeoServer Cookbook

By: Stefano Iacovella

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (17 chapters)
GeoServer Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Installing the monitoring extension


In the previous recipe, you learned how to control the requests flow your users send to GeoServer. You may also become interested in monitoring them, for instance, in order to check what the most used services and datasets are.

A low-level approach, and it is the only possible one, is to analyze the GeoServer logs and the web server logs. All requests are in some way tracked there, so it's just a matter of how to find a convenient way to extract and organize them in a structured data model.

Getting ready

Analyzing the logs may be quite challenging. Besides, according to the detail level, you may find too much information or totally miss the piece you are looking for.

Luckily, GeoServer developers have been working on a clever extension that helps you to analyze what requests GeoServer has been receiving. Unsurprisingly, it is called Monitor Extension.

You can find the package listed among the other extension downloads on the GeoServer download page (http:/...