In exploratory testing one tries to figure out how well the system under test reacts to edge cases and special input data. It’s less structured than acceptance or unit tests and therefore may help you find different kinds of problems. Good input data is not all it takes, but it can help you a lot. …
One thing that you notice instantly when you ever try to figure out what goes on in a SharePoint instance is the unbelievable amount of log messages that are written. Even when no user is on your site, SharePoint itself has so many things going on that a constant stream of messages is created. If …
Logstash doesn’t have to be that complicated. Last week’s example with log files from IIS looked so scary because the fields can vary from one IIS to the other. But when you want to use logstash to parse a well-known file format then all can be much simpler. Today I will show you the configuration …
The IIS log files collect all the actions that occur on the web server. As explained last week you can use Log Parser to filter the events. However, when you use Kibana for all your applications then you would prefer to have the IIS log events there as well. Today I will explain how you …
Every request made to a web application running on IIS is logged. Not only will the page that was requested be registered, but a lot of additional information like the user agent, the client IP address and if the request resulted in an error. Many of those values can be found in Google Analytics, but …