Importing Logs for a specific website

ak81 · October 16, 2020, 7:33am

Hey!

I’ve got a general question.
I’m running a Matomo Server, which is tracking about 20 different websites, via the java-tracking-code.
I now need to set up a tracking via importing and analyzing access logs - so far, no problem!
What I actually don’t understand is, how the analyzed logs are assigned to a specific website?
Do I create a new website in matomo and matomo automaticly recognizes the analyzed log entries from it’s database? …or how does that work?

I hope, I could explain my problem well

Thanks in advance
Andreas

Lukas · October 16, 2020, 9:04am

Hi,

Either you call the log analytics script specifying a idsite, then all data is tracked into that idsite/siteid. (--idsite=1234)

Or if you don’t I think the Log Analytics will try to detect the domain from the log and get the siteids (or create them if they don’t exist).

github.com

matomo-org/matomo-log-analytics/blob/22baad53f36782d7668c6fb3c270e60f3259f705/import_logs.py#L606-L610


parser.add_argument(
    '--idsite', dest='site_id',
    help= ("When specified, "
           "data in the specified log files will be tracked for this Matomo site ID."
           " The script will not auto-detect the website based on the log line hostname (new websites will not be automatically created).")