Re: [Sks-devel] Logging of SKS

[Olaf Gellert]

Hi,

> I'm open to suggestions (though of course patches are always better....). 
> Can you give me a more detailed sense of what level of logging detail
> you'd like?  What should the output look like on a key merge?  What
> information are you looking for on the stats page?  What do you want to
> know about requests that isn't there already?  (I thought the get/submit
> stuff was already there....)  I can't promise anything, but I'd like to
> understand the proposal in more detail.
Ok, I had a closer look on the logs (at different loglevels).
So using grep, awk and friends we are already able to extract:

- Number of Mails received (feeded from HKS using sks_add_mail).
- Number of Searches (Index Requests)
- Number of Key retrievals (GET Requests)
- Number of different origins of requests (IP-addresses)
- Number of add requests

What I am really missing is a more detailed level
on the changes to the keys, so if a key is added,
there could be some messages like this:

- X new user IDs added
- X new signatures added
- X new keys added

and maybe even (but I am not sure of this)

- X signatures revoked
and so on.

This is a nice information on the level of
changes that happen to the database...

Regards, Olaf

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