unique request ids

[Mit Rowe]

Hi Per,

That's looks promising, i could save the X-Varnish header in the logs and
during the import strip off the second number.

Is that a sequential number or a random number?
What is its range?





On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 4:27 PM, Per Buer <perbu at varnish-software.com> wrote:

> Hi Mit,
>
> On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 8:03 PM, Mit Rowe <mit at stagename.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> I was wondering... does varnish internally generate a reliably random
>> unique value for each request (similar to mod_unique_id in apache or a
>> uuid/guid), and if so is there a way that i can write it out to my logs,
>> perhaps via an insertion into a request header and using the %{HEADER}i
>> macro in varnishncsa?
>>
>
> There is a request ID, in Varnishlog you'll see it as the last number in
> the ReqStart lines ie.
>
>     1932 ReqStart     c 127.0.0.1 54471 1236808814
>
> You could probably extract it from the X-Varnish header, it will be the
> first of one or two numbers in that header.
>
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