Ultimately my goal is to track IP addresses who create accounts but never log in (usually spammers). I can find the data by hand by scrolling through the access log reports, but this is tedious on a busy site. So I figured I could make a view, filter on message logs containing "new user:" and show the IP address, just like in the access log. I was surprised to find there is no field for the message itself. There's also no fields for type or severity.

Am I missing something obvious? Also open to ideas on finding these IP addresses - to my knowledge when an account is created that never actually logs in, the creator's IP is only available in the original access log itself. Most of the "hostname" data comes up blank on these entries.

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dawehner’s picture

Title: Views needs more access log fields » Integrate watchdog table with views

No there is no such integration into views yet, but maybe someone will come up and write one.
There are also contrib modules which provides this feature already ...

dawehner’s picture

No there is no such integration into views yet, but maybe someone will come up and write one.
There are also contrib modules which provides this feature already ...

rstamm’s picture

ky_metro’s picture

Thanks Ralf! That's good enough for me. Still, seems like a bit of core functionality that should be added, so I'm leaving this issue open in case someone wants to actually integrate watchdog data with Views.

mustanggb’s picture

Issue summary: View changes
Status: Active » Closed (won't fix)