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Over the past couple years we've talked about all of the various applications you can web-enable on Domino in order to make a really useful intranet. But is anyone actually using them? You can find out pretty easily using built-in tools in Lotus Domino to track who is hitting your websites, and how often.

Turn on logging

There are two kinds of logs you can use to track website activity. You can use the Domlog.nsf Domino database to track all the information, or you can have Domino output the activity into text log files.

You'll find all of these settings in your server document. Open it up and head to the Internet Protocols, HTTP tab. To enable logging, you just have to choose Enabled in the Enable Logging To section.

You can do any combination of the two, including both at once or no logging at all. I would recommend against enabling both at the same time as it will be a pretty big resource drain on your server.

Using Domlog.nsf

If you want things as easy as possible, you can use domlog.nsf. The Domino Web Server log database is a great choice if you want to get going as soon as possible and don't need really detailed reporting.

Just enable Domlog.nsf and all data will be stored in that Notes database, and you don't have to do anything further. Just restart your server, and when HTTP restarts, it will create Domlog.nsf for you.

Now whenever anyone hits any of your web sites or web applications via a web browser, Domlog.nsf will track the activity. You can view the activity a few ways:

When you open up the web server log, you'll see your list of views in the left side. Any time a web browser requests anything from your application, it's tracked, and reported here. You can look at the data the following ways: