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I've had a problem with my IIS that I could only log daily: Why does the IIS only write logs once per day?

The answer helped a lot, BUT I've run into a problem with it. In essence: I manage to configure it so that I get up to hourly logs. But when I say "create no new file" to get a continuous stream of logfile entries.......the file is created and stays at 0 bytes. After 30 minutes I changed back to hourly and.....suddenly the file got 300 KB of data into it.

Thus my question is, how can I get the IIS to log continuously in a permanent stream, so that every new log entry is immediately written into the logfile?

IIS Version: (10.0.14393.0)

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The command to immediately flush the IIS buffer is :

netsh http flush logbuffer

You may loop over it using a batch file.

The following example .bat file flushes the log file every second:

@echo off
:loop
  netsh http flush logbuffer
  timeout /t 1 > NUL
goto loop
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  • so that I get it right: regardless waht I do...for examlpe if I put it down as daily logs, if I want a continuous stream I don't have any configuration option any longer, but instead need to flush the buffer manually?
    – Thomas
    Jul 21, 2022 at 12:28
  • That will get a log that is up to date to the second, and you don't need to force IIS to do something that it's not designed to do.
    – harrymc
    Jul 21, 2022 at 12:41
  • Is there any known reason as to why a continuous log is no longer configurable? (in the way older versions I used in the past it was default that it wrote the logs either immediately or with 1-2 minutes delay not "only" when he creates a new file)
    – Thomas
    Jul 21, 2022 at 12:44
  • Microsoft changes stuff with every new version and we must adapt. It seems like "create no new file" doesn't work any more. You can do a bug report using the Feedback Hub, and maybe this will be fixed in the future.
    – harrymc
    Jul 21, 2022 at 12:48
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    tnx. accepted your answer. I wonder only if microsoft doesn't run into the same problems.......at least if they use IIS for their own web servers ..... but that is already too off topic fo rhere.
    – Thomas
    Jul 21, 2022 at 13:01

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