Click logs
The Funnelback click logs record collection search results and best bets that users have clicked on and provides information on popular results.
Log locations
Live Funnelback logs are located at:
$SEARCH_HOME/data/collection_name/live/log/*.log (e.g. /opt/funnelback/data/shakespeare/live/log/clicks-localhost.log)
This log file is updated for each click. Note that older versions of Funnelback store clicks in queries.log and later versions use clicks.log.
When the collection is updated, these files are then archived by moving them to the directory:
$SEARCH_HOME/data/collection_name/live/archive
The archived file is named according to the current date and hostname e.g. /opt/funnelback/data/collection/archive/clicks-localhost.20190827_022830.log.gz.
Log format
Click logs have the following format: one line in the log file per click processed and each line contains fields separated by commas. Some example lines from a clicks.log:
... Tue Aug 27 03:08:03 2019,10.0.2.0,http://fake/?collection=foodista&profile=_default&query=cream,11,http://www.foodista.com/recipe/6QZTQFBY/bulgogi-kimchi-fries.html,CLICK,0d5f0777-8caf-4774-8d7f-f537b77e6c3c Tue Aug 27 03:30:03 2019,10.0.2.0,http://fake/?collection=foodista&profile=_default&query=cream%20%7Ctags%3A%22%24%2B%2B%20cheese%20%24%2B%2B%22,2,http://www.foodista.com/recipe/3W34GRBC/asado-rolls.html,CLICK,0d5f0777-8caf-4774-8d7f-f537b77e6c3c Tue Aug 27 03:30:39 2019,10.0.2.0,http://fake/?collection=foodista&profile=_default&query=foodista,0,https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foodista.com,FP,0d5f0777-8caf-4774-8d7f-f537b77e6c3c ...
The individual fields in each line are described in the following table:
| Field no. | Field name | Notes |
|---|---|---|
1 |
date-time |
The format is: |
2 |
clicker-ip |
The IP address of the request. |
3 |
referrer-URI |
The page that this click was made from. e.g |
4 |
rank |
The rank the clicked result was presented at (beginning from 1, 0 means a featured page) |
5 |
target-URI |
The URI that the click should take the browser to. i.e. the actual search result |
6 |
type of result identifier |
An identifier where |
7 |
User identifier |
Unique identifier of a user, if search session and history is enabled. If not, then a dash |