Varnish Cheat Sheet[edit]

For Varnish 4.

Show most requested URLs from backend[edit]

varnishtop -i BereqURL

Show specific requested URLs from backend[edit]

varnishlog -q 'BereqURL ~ "^/forum/Themes/default/scripts/"

Show requests for single URL[edit]

varnishlog -q 'ReqURL ~ "^/wiki/Translatetest"'

Show backend responses[edit]

varnishlog -g request -q "RespStatus eq 503"

varnishlog -g request -q "BerespStatus eq 503"

HTTP Purges[edit]

curl -X "PURGE / HTTP/1.0" 127.0.0.1:6081/adrelanos.asc
or: curl --head -X "PURGE / HTTP/1.0" 127.0.0.1:6081/adrelanos.asc
check (Resets Age in http header to 0.): curl --head https://www.whonix.org/adrelanos.asc ^[archive]

Show HTTP requests[edit]

varnishlog -q "ReqMethod eq PURGE"

Show HTTP purges[edit]

varnishlog -q "VCL_return eq purge"

Ban single URL[edit]

varnishadm 'ban req.url ~ "/adrelanos.asc"'

varnishadm 'ban req.url ~ "/wiki/Translatetest"'

Ban all URLs[edit]

varnishadm 'ban req.url ~ "."'

Show how many connections are currently open[edit]

netstat -anp | grep :443 | grep ESTABLISHED | wc -l

wordpress Total Cache varnish setup[edit]

wordpress → Performance (on the side) → General Settings → Reverse Proxy
127.0.0.1:6081 run in shell: varnishlog -q "VCL_return eq purge"
test: wordpress → Performance (at the top) → empty all cache

list of all variables such as client.ip[edit]

https://www.varnish-cache.org/docs/trunk/reference/vcl.html ^[archive]

default built-in vcl[edit]

https://www.varnish-cache.org/trac/browser/bin/varnishd/builtin.vcl?rev=4.0 ^[archive]

Show nuked items[edit]

Elements that have been removed from cache due to lack of memory.

varnishstat -1 -f MAIN.n_lru_nuked

whonix.org[edit]

/etc/default/varnish

## Patrick: changed from
## -s malloc,256m
## to
## -s malloc,8G

varnish advantages[edit]

devicedetect.vcl ^[archive] for mobile devices for mediawiki

Feature Requests[edit]

phabricator - integration with reverse caching proxies such as squid, varnish ^[archive]

Debugging[edit]

https://www.whonix.org/wiki/Main_Page?action=purge ^[archive]
see if purge request is registered
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Purge ^[archive]

Benchmark[edit]

https://www.whonix.org/wiki/Main_Page
(89%)
YSlow Score
(69%)
Page Details
Fully Loaded Time
2.5s
Total Page Size
445KB
Requests
60

x

69
https://www.whonix.org/wiki/Main_Page
1.8 s
48%
43%
9%
First Input Delay (FID)
251 ms
82%
17%
1%
Lab Data

First Contentful Paint
1.3 s
Speed Index
5.7 s
Time to Interactive
7.5 s
First Meaningful Paint
1.3 s
First CPU Idle
3.5 s
Max Potential First Input Delay
150 ms

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