This post was written for the Scalyr blog . You can find the original here . Logs come in a variety of formats and are stored in multiple different locations. Getting insights from all of these logs isn’t a trivial task. Microsoft Log Parser is a tool that helps us extract such information easily, using a SQL-like syntax. It supports many different input and output formats. But it also has some limitations because of its age. Introducing Log Parser According
I’m currently working on a NodeJS project that makes HTTP calls to an ASP.NET (4.5.1) application. When running locally, I also want to make these calls to my local ASP.NET application. Sometimes, however, I don’t want to start up Visual Studio, open the project, compile, and run. Seeing as this is not ASP.NET Core, I can’t just run it from the command-line. Or can I? It turns out that if you have IIS Express installed (which you should have, with
There’s lots of information out there on how to create a virtual directory in IIS with adsutil.vbs. But when you need an application, like for an ASP.NET website, you need one more step which I had some trouble finding. Adsutil.vbs is a script to manage IIS from the commandline. If you’re using IIS6 you can use other scripts like iisvdir.vbs and iisweb.vbs. But for IIS5, these aren’t available, so you have to use adsutil.vbs instead. Here’s the three commands necessary: