[gentoo-user] apache log analyzer

[gentoo-user] apache log analyzer

[Catalin Trifu]

	Hi,

    I'm pretty new to log analyzers. Besides webalizer which got a
little bit old (still usefull nonetheless) i have no other experience.
    I've googled and found awstats and analog.
    If you would care to comment on this issue I would be grateful for
any hints.

Thanks.
Catalin

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Re: [gentoo-user] apache log analyzer

[A. Khattri]

On Mon, 24 Oct 2005, Catalin Trifu wrote:

>     I'm pretty new to log analyzers. Besides webalizer which got a
> little bit old (still usefull nonetheless) i have no other experience.
>     I've googled and found awstats and analog.
>     If you would care to comment on this issue I would be grateful for
> any hints.

Im using analog to produce a datafile that is then run through
reportmagic. I wrote several scripts too manage all of the different
processes. It is currently in use here for weekly reports for 200 or so
web sites.


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Re: [gentoo-user] apache log analyzer

[Preston Hagar]

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On 10/24/05, Catalin Trifu <catalin@isp-software.de> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm pretty new to log analyzers. Besides webalizer which got a
> little bit old (still usefull nonetheless) i have no other experience.
> I've googled and found awstats and analog.
> If you would care to comment on this issue I would be grateful for
> any hints.
>
> Thanks.
> Catalin
>
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I'm using awstats along with logrotate to do stats for 10 websites hosted on
one server. Every night, logrotate runs (by cron), runs awstats on the
access_log file for each site, gzips the log and moves it to another
directory for backup. I like awstats because it allows you to have a custom
log format and it "understands" virtual hosts. This is nice because I can
have one log file for all my sites, in which I just append a VLOG name to a
normal combined log format. I have an awstats config file for each site
which all read the same file, but only look for their own domain name. I
used webalizer for a while, but often had problems that if I processed a log
that was in the middle of a day or month, it would not continue properly
when it parsed the next log. With awstats, it runs every night and works
great with a nice output. I would highly recommed it. Look here:
http://awstats.sourceforge.net/docs/awstats_faq.html#ROTATE for info on
using awstats with logrotate and look here:
http://awstats.sourceforge.net/docs/awstats_compare.html for a comparison
between awstats, analog, webalizer, and hitbox. (It is created by awstats
though, so it might be a little biased).

HTH,

Preston

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