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by WestCoastJustin 5501 days ago
Almost 10 years ago I worked for a digital imaging company called ACD Systems and we had a major product launch of ACDSee. We were using Akamai as a CDN and we wanted to know the stats about who was downloading.

Think about this for a second.. Akamai is massive with 10,000+ global servers handling massive amounts of traffic. It might sound simple to fetch one users logs but how do you make this simple for the user. Akamai also had a proprietary log format. To their credit we had a couple conference calls and we worked with their engineers to find a solution. They were a great company.

You don't see logs being offered because it is a major pain in the ass to compile these logs from many servers and reduce them for a specific user.