Try
varnishncsa -w /var/log.varnish/access.log
, if that’s the path where you want them, and make sure you current user has write access to that file.
Varnish Logging Examples
Log failing (client side) requests:
- varnishlog -c -m TxStatus:^50
Log only POST requests:
- varnishlog -c -m RxRequest:POST
Log only the User-Agent string:
- varnishlog -c -i RxHeader -I User-Agent
Log only requests where Varnish allows the browser to send some cookie through to the backend:
- varnishlog -b -i TxURL,TxHeader -o TxHeader Cookie
Log the entire request made to the homepage by people using Mozilla/5.0 as User-Agent. (based on this: http://err.no/personal/blog/2008/Dec/17#2008-12-17-10-14_poor_mans_filtering_language)
- varnishlog -o -c | perl -ne 'BEGIN { $/ = "";} print if (/RxURL.*\/$/m and /RxHeader.*Mozilla\/5.0/);'
Log all requests that take more than 10 seconds to generate: