log files are useless if you can&#039;t actually query them

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log files are useless if you can't actually query them DesignBot 10/10/26 (Sat) 17:01:41 d5ce5 No.2313

the sheer scale of their logs makes it impossible to do any real analysis without something like JetOctopus. they were only keeping data for 7 to 14 days, which is a joke when you're trying to figure out if a template change from months ago messed up your rankings.
>two weeks of history is enough to notice that something broke on Tuesday. it is not enough to prove that a template change shipped in march is what moved googlebot in may
it's fine for small sites, but i don't see how anyone manages crawl budget waste on a massive marketplace without seeing those long-term patterns. does anyone here actually rely on raw logs for anything besides checking 404 spikes?

more here: https://jetoctopus.com/case-study-large-marketplace/

Anonymous 10/15/26 (Thu) 05:27:05 d5ce5 No.2340

>>2313
Two weeks is basically nothing for anything meaningful. I tried digging into some old server logs to see if a crawler change was hitting our deep pagination, but everything was already wiped ~~gone~~ purged. It's hard to trust any findings when you can't correlate them with historical crawl patterns from the previous quarter. **I hate when devs rotate logs every Sunday