Configuring how URLs are logged

Administrator Help | Forcepoint Web Security and Forcepoint URL Filtering | v8.5.x

Related topics:

Log Database administration settings

Configuring database partition options

Configuring Internet browse time options

Configuring Log Database maintenance options

Configuring trend and application data retention

Use the Full URL Logging section of the Settings > Reporting > Log Database page to determine how much of each requested URL is logged.


	Note Managing Log Database size is an important concern in high-volume networks. Disabling the Full URL Logging option is one way to control database size and growth.

Select Record domain and full URL of each site requested to log the entire URL, including the domain (www.domain.com) and the path to the particular page (/products/productA.html).


	Important Enable full URL logging if you plan to generate reports of scanning activity (see Reporting on advanced real-time analysis). Otherwise, reports can display only the domain (www.domain.com) of the site categorized, even though individual pages within the site may fall into different categories, or contain different threats.

If this option is not checked, only domain names are logged. This choice results in a smaller database, but provides less detail.

If you activate full URL logging when consolidation is active, the consolidated record contains the full URL from the first record in the consolidation group. See Configuring Log Server for more information.

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