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Why do you store your webserver's logs? My reading of the GDPR (I am not a lawyer) is that it strongly encourages site owners to store the very minimum amount o
by AndrewStephens 2y ago
Why do you store your webserver's logs? My reading of the GDPR (I am not a lawyer) is that it strongly encourages site owners to store the very minimum amount of data about visitors - something that I wholeheartedly agree with.
Server logs are useful for debugging the site but also contain potentially identifying information (IP addresses) so I have my site delete them after 48 hours.
User submitted comments are obviously required for the usage of your site, so you are in the clear there.
- superkuh 1y agoI read the logs with my human eyes manually because I am interested in learning about the web and internet. In fact today I found a whole new useful search engine because I saw it's spider in my logs. 64.62.202.82 "GET /library/Math/Mathematical%20Methods%20for%20Physicists_%20A%20concise%20introduction_%20Tai%20L%20Chow_%202000.pdf -" "Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; Centurybot/1.0; +http://www.rightdao.com/bot.html) Chrome/131.0.0.0 Safari/537.36" It turns out that http://www.rightdao.com/ http://www.rightdao.com/ is a great old-style search engine that actually returns many tens of pages and thousands of results. As opposed to google that only ever returns <400, bing <900, and kagi <200. I guess I keep logs because I want to interact more directly with the internet as a whole and experience the serendipity that comes with that.
- kuschku 1y agoThen keep your logs for 14 days, and remove IPs from them after 48h. Tools for that exist, you don't keep unnecessary data, and you're in the clear.