It seems like your browser didn't download the required fonts. Please revise your security settings and try again.
Barracuda Campus Barracuda Campus
Barracuda Content Shield
Overview Documentation Training Certification Materials

Full URL Logging

  • Last updated on

The Full URL Logging feature captures the websites users are visiting, what the users did on those websites, and what pages they viewed. To track this, the full URL for every website and every page visited on that site is recorded in the web logs. If the Full URL Logging feature is not enabled for a user or group, the web logs only show domains and subdomains visited, not full URLs.

Important notes:

  • Enabling Full URL Logging for a user or group means that BCS intercepts SSL traffic in order to view the full URL, which can require additional processing resources on the endpoint machine. For this reason, make sure to only enable Full URL Logging for specific users, not for entire groups – unless everyone in the group has a machine that can handle the additional resource usage.
  • Rules you create on the ADVANCED FILTERING page are applied in the order in which they appear in the table, for both users and groups. Each rule takes precedence over the rule(s) listed below that rule. For details and examples, see How Rules Are Applied (Order of Precedence) in How to Configure Advanced Filtering Policies.
  • With Full URL Logging enabled, only the URL path is included; no request parameters are included.

To enable Full URL Logging for a user or group that does not have an existing rule-set:

  1. Go to the ADVANCED FILTERING page.
  2. Click the blue ADD RULE drop-down on the right of the screen, as shown below. Select Full URL Logging from the list.

    AddRuleButton.png

  3. Click the blue FULL URL LOGGING button to open the configuration pop-up window.

    FullURLLoggingButton.png

  4. In the Full URL Logging pop-up window, use the drop-down to select a user or group.

    FullURLLoggingPopup.png

  5. Set Full URL Logging to ON.
  6. Click SAVE to create the policy.

To enable Full URL Logging for a user or group with an existing rule-set:

  1. Click the 3 dots 3Dots.png  in the More column for that user or group, and select Full URL Logging.
  2. In the Full URL Logging pop-up window, as shown above, set Full URL Logging to ON.
  3. Click SAVE.

FullURLLoggingMore.png

In the example below, the user wfdev has Full URL Logging enabled:

FullURLLogRule.png

On the Web Filtering Logs page, searching for User ID wfdev shows summarized log entries:

ArrowToViewFullURL.png

Clicking on the arrows by the date expands the view, showing the full URL:

FullURLExpanded.png