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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users Nearly Random, Uncorrelated Server Load Average Spikes Post 303044138 by Neo on Saturday 15th of February 2020 02:28:08 AM
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I have some old "cyberspace situational awareness" PHP code I used for a visualization project a few years ago, which captures and stores details information on web session activity; this code has proven handy identifying rouge bots in the past.

So, I have modified that code to capture and store detailed session information, including the number of hits per IP address, the user agent string, country code, etc. when the 1 minute load average is above 20 and less than 50.

Code:
$theload = getLoadAvg();
if (floatval($theload) > 20.0 && floatval($theload) < 50.0) 
{
  /// the old CSA code to parse web session activity and store the results in the DB
}

So, let's see what happens the next time we get a spike... this should be interesting.


Code:
mysql> describe neo_csa_session_manager;
+--------------+------------------+------+-----+---------+----------------+
| Field        | Type             | Null | Key | Default | Extra          |
+--------------+------------------+------+-----+---------+----------------+
| id           | int(11) unsigned | NO   | PRI | NULL    | auto_increment |
| user_id      | int(11)          | NO   | MUL | 0       |                |
| session_id   | varchar(255)     | NO   |     | NULL    |                |
| url          | text             | NO   |     | NULL    |                |
| ip_address   | varchar(45)      | NO   | MUL | NULL    |                |
| user_agent   | varchar(255)     | NO   |     | NULL    |                |
| bot_flag     | tinyint(1)       | NO   |     | 0       |                |
| robot_txt    | mediumint(6)     | NO   |     | 0       |                |
| sitemap      | mediumint(6)     | NO   |     | 0       |                |
| riskscore    | int(11)          | NO   |     | 0       |                |
| country_iso2 | varchar(2)       | NO   |     | UN      |                |
| country      | varchar(50)      | NO   |     | UNKNOWN |                |
| hitcount     | int(10) unsigned | NO   |     | 1       |                |
| firstseen    | bigint(11)       | NO   |     | NULL    |                |
| unixtime     | bigint(11)       | YES  |     | NULL    |                |
| longitude    | float            | NO   |     | 0       |                |
| latitude     | float            | NO   |     | 0       |                |
+--------------+------------------+------+-----+---------+----------------+
17 rows in set (0.00 sec)

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