How to Find Stored IIS Log Files

 IIS Log Files help individuals, business owners and IT teams analyze the data stored on their computers to help improve productivity. With these analyses, you will be able to see where your consumers are coming from when they reach your websites, how long they are visiting each page, what articles they are viewing and more. This information will allow you to be able to make adjustments with your business so that you can improve your traffic generation to increase your profits

Internet Information Services (IIS) Log analyzing is crucially important to running a successful online business. However, many people are unable to utilize these IIS Log Files, simply because they do not know how to find where their IIS Log Files are stored.

Below I have listed the step-by-step instructions to help you find where your IIS Log Files are stored so that you will be able to analyze the data and generate a plan to improve your marketing efficiency.

1.      From your computer’s desktop go to Start  à Control Panel à Administrative Tools.

2.      Click to “Run Internet Information Services” (IIS).

3.      Find your website under the tree icon on the left.

4.      Right click on your website and chose Properties.

5.      On the Website tab you should see an option near the bottom that says “Active Log Format.” Click on this Properties button.

6.      At the bottom of the “General Properties Tab,” you should see a box that contains the Log File Directory and the Log File Name. This Full Log Path is compiled of the log file directory and the first part of the log file name.

For Example, if your dialog box displayed shows the following values:

·         Log file directory: C:\Windows\System32\LogFiles

·         Log file name: W3SVC1\exyymmdd.log

Then your Full Log Path to be entered in to your IIS Log Analyzer would be:

C:\Windows\System32\LogFiles\W3SVC1

Now that you know where to find your IIS Log Files, you can utilize your log analyzer to improve your traffic generation and improve your business’ productivity!