When importing logs, got Fatal error: Incorrect response from tracking API: 'GIF89a�!�,D;'

[mattab]

When queuedTracking plugin is enabled, when importing server logs, I get the following:

$ ./misc/log-analytics/import_logs.py --url=demo2.piwik.org  ~/admin/log/access.log --idsite=4
0 lines parsed, 0 lines recorded, 0 records/sec (avg), 0 records/sec (current)
Parsing log /home/piwik-demo2/admin/log/access.log...
Fatal error: Incorrect response from tracking API: 'GIF89a���!���,����D�;'
Is the BulkTracking plugin disabled?

Can we fix this issue in QueuedTracking plugin directly or does it need to be fixed in core? hopefully we can fix it in QueuedTracking as we need it ASAP

[tsteur]

See Readme

In case you are using bulk tracking the bulk tracking response varies compared to the regular one. We will always return either an image or a 204 HTTP response code in case the parameter send_image=0 is sent.

This is currently expected behaviour. The log importer was recently changed to trigger a fatal when it does not return json which causes that message: matomo-org/matomo#6982 Importing itself should work fine.

[tsteur]

Should be fixed in matomo-org/matomo-log-analytics#57

A temporary workaround was done in f918c2b but we will remove this again after matomo-org/matomo-log-analytics#57 was fixed and released see matomo-org/matomo#7595

Be aware that we temporarily change the API output meaning this breaks temporarily the API