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Filtering IP Ranges From SmarterStats Reports

December 16, 2016 / Peter Viola / SmarterTools

Recently while looking through my site’s traffic report from the past few months I noticed an unusual spike.  I use SmarterStats by SmarterTools which is a web based enterprise analytics tool and is free for one domain. After looking through a few other reports I came to realize that the spike I was seeing was […]

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Log Parser, SmarterStats, Smartertools

Preventing Automated Attacks with IIS Dynamic IP Restrictions

August 4, 2014 / Peter Viola / IIS, Windows Server 2012

Another one of the great built-in features of IIS 8 is Dynamic IP Restrictions (DIPR). With a few simple configuration steps you can quickly set limits for blocking IP addresses based on the number of concurrent requests or frequency of requests over a period time. With these parameters in place IIS will take over blocking […]

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Dynamic IP Restrictions, Fiddler, IIS, IIS 7, IIS 8, Log Parser, StressStimulus

Solving SQL Server High CPU with IIS Request Filtering

July 27, 2014 / Peter Viola / IIS, SQL Server, Windows Server 2012

The other day I was troubleshooting 100%  CPU utilization on a SQL Server 2008 database server. The server had 100 or so databases of varying sizes however none were larger than a few hundred MB and each database had a corresponding web site on a separate web server.  Since the server hosted quite a few […]

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DTA, IIS, IIS 7, IIS 8, Log Parser, SQL Injection, SQL Profiler

Enhancing Log Parser Reports with Charts

October 7, 2013 / Peter Viola / IIS, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2012

When you need quick analysis of your traffic logs you won’t find an better tool than Microsoft’s free Log Parser. With Log Parser you can read a variety of log files including the Registry and Windows event logs. It’s ease of use comes from using SQL queries against your log file. You can get your […]

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IIS, IIS 7, IIS 8, Log Parser, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2012

Using Url Rewrite to Block Page Requests

November 10, 2012 / Peter Viola / IIS

The other day I was checking the traffic stats for my WordPress blog to see which of my posts were the most popular. I was a little concerned to see that wp-login.php was in the Top 5 total requests almost every month.  Since I’m the only author on my blog my logins could not possibly […]

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IIS, Log Parser, Url Rewrite

Automate Log Parser to Find Your Data Faster

September 25, 2012 / Peter Viola / IIS

Microsoft’s Log Parser is a really powerful tool for searching log files. With just a few simple SQL commands you can pull more data than you ever imagined out of your logs. It can be used to read web site log files, csv files, and even Windows event logs. Log Parser isn’t intended to compete […]

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IIS, Log Parser

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