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Web Log Analyzers?

Posted by Cliff on from the making-sense-out-of-your-access_log dept.

sammy.lost-angel.com asks: "What's the best web log analyzer out there today? It's time to upgrade our horribly out of date one and I'm not sure what's good out there at this time. Our site receives about 50,000 hits a day, so things like remembering what's already been analyzed can save a lot of time." What about log analyzers that can work on more than one type of web server? An analyzer that could parse access data for, say, IIS and Apache would be a nice tool!

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  1. Re:Analog by frankie · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I use Analog exclusively (well, after DNSTran for name lookups and Perl to sort out sub-logs) and I have found little reason to complain. As Stephen mentioned, you can use ReportMagic to prettify the output. I don't bother.

    My only complaint is Stephen's dogmatic insistence on not performing any form of speculative analysis. For example, he refuses to even attempt visitor counting, path tracking, etc. The sort of stuff that bosses like to see, whether or not it's strictly accurate.

    Stephen could put WebTrends out of business with a couple hours of coding, but he has his principles.

  2. Wusage by angry_beaver · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Our company uses Wusage and it's quite a nice package IMHO.
    It doesn't generate very pretty reports by default, but it is highly customizable and provides a truck load of data.

    Note: I am not affiliated with the makers of Wusage in any way.

  3. Sawmill is great. by tdyson · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Sawmill, by Flowerfire is pretty cool. It understand virtually every log you imagine. It'll run as a cgi, via cli or as a stand alone web server. There is a version for many different platforms. With the web interface, the Marketing group can do their own drill down and queries, so I can dosome real work. Performance is good. I think of it as the program that WebTrends wished it was. Get the eval version and take if for a spin.