Quoting Tibor Liktor liktor@gmail.com:
Hi,
I've got a watchdog problem.
The watchdog log is essential for me to discover bugs and errors, and monitor the site's performance, and blahblablah - you know that.
But watchdog became quite useless for me, because it is full of 404 errors triggered by Google and other bots.
Now nearly 90% of the log is crap. It is impossible to dig out any useful info from that. (Not speaking about the additional server load and database size issues.)
Is there any solution to filter out the tons of messages caused by searchbots?
Do you face with similar issues? How do you handle those?
There is a filter by message type list box that can help but that is too simple and I must not be understanding you. I do know that the "page not found" errors tend to be ridiculous and the drupal engine itself causes a several; i.e. the referrer is the site on which the watchdog log is being reviewed. It would be nice if I could filter to "all messages except page not found messages"; is that what you mean? Can't do it out of the box but that doesn't mean you can't program for it.
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