Illegal Search Terms

Several terms are illegal to use when searching Confluence, like : or {. If you search for just the macro term, you're likely not to get the right search results. For example, searching for 'usage', which is the name of a macro but also a common English word, will not yield an accurate count.

Query the Database

If, for example, you want to search for the uses of the usage macro, you can search the database:

SELECT * FROM BODYCONTENT WHERE BODY LIKE '%{usage}%'

If you want to get the last users or the creators of the pages where the noformat macro is used, you might run:

SELECT CREATOR FROM CONTENT WHERE CONTENTID IN (SELECT CONTENTID FROM BODYCONTENT WHERE BODY LIKE '%{noformat}%') GROUP BY CREATOR
SELECT LASTMODIFIER FROM CONTENT WHERE CONTENTID IN (SELECT CONTENTID FROM BODYCONTENT WHERE BODY LIKE '%{noformat}%') GROUP BY LASTMODIFIER

Listing the occurences of the excerpt include macro (MYSQL only)

select c.contentid, c.title, c.lastmoddate, c.lastmodifier, s.spacename from bodycontent bc join content c on bc.contentid=c.contentid join spaces s on s.spaceid = c.spaceid where c.contenttype='PAGE' and prevver is null and bc.body regexp '.*\{(excerpt-)?include*\}.*';

Logging Uses of a Macro

This information won't tell you how often a macro is invoked, but rather how often it appears on pages. For counting how often it's invoked (and measuring the time it takes to invoke it), check Identifying Slow Performing Macros.

Counting the Incidents of Invoked Logs

You can then grep the logs like:

grep -c "{usage" atlassian-confluence.log