The Varnish Reference Manual

• VCL
  • Varnish Configuration Language
• Varnish Processing States
  • Introduction
  • Client Side
  • Backend Side
• varnish-cli
  • Varnish Command Line Interface
• varnishadm
  • Control a running Varnish instance
• varnishd
  • HTTP accelerator daemon
• varnishhist
  • Varnish request histogram
• varnishlog
  • Display Varnish logs
• varnishncsa
  • Display Varnish logs in Apache / NCSA combined log format
• varnishstat
  • Varnish Cache statistics
• varnishtest
  • Test program for Varnish
• varnishtop
  • Varnish log entry ranking
• VSM: Shared Memory Logging and Statistics
  • Shared memory trickery
  • The Varnish way:
• VMOD blob - Utilities for the VCL blob type, encoding and decoding
• VMOD cookie - Varnish Cookie Module
• VMOD directors - Varnish Directors Module
• VMOD proxy - Varnish Module to extract TLV attributes from PROXYv2
• VMOD purge - Varnish Purge Module
• VMOD std - Varnish Standard Module
• VMOD unix - Utilities for Unix domain sockets
• VMOD vtc - Utility module for varnishtest
• VMOD - Varnish Modules
  • VMOD Directory
  • The vmod.vcc file
  • VCL and C data types
  • Private Pointers
  • Event functions
  • When to lock, and when not to lock
  • Statistics Counters
• Writing a Director
  • Backends vs Directors
  • Load Balancing Directors
  • Dynamic Backends
  • Health Probes
  • Custom Backends
• varnish-counters
  • Varnish counter field definitions
• VSL
  • Varnish Shared Memory Logging
• vsl-query
  • Varnish VSL Query Expressions
• VTC
  • Varnish Test Case Syntax
• VTLA - Varnish Three Letter Acronyms
  • COPYRIGHT