[NBLUG/talk] Cobalt server and parsing access logs

Steve Johnson srj at adnd.com
Fri May 21 16:47:29 PDT 2004


I use webalizer, which works pretty well, if you would like to see
what the output looks like, feel free to look at my stats

http://www.adnd.com/stats/

-Steve



On Fri, May 21, 2004 at 04:26:43PM -0700, Mark Street wrote:
> AH, webserver access logs, I will give a nod to the freebie 'webalizer' for 
> basic web server log file parsing, it will create a page for each month of 
> the log file.
> 
> If a kewl commercial no holds barred executive summary go with WebTrends$$$.
> 
> On Friday 21 May 2004 16:12, Troy Arnold wrote:
> > On Fri, May 21, 2004 at 04:02:52PM -0700, Todd Cary wrote:
> > >
> > > I think I figured out what I need to do:
> > >
> > > The logging appears to put all logs for each month into one "overall"
> > > log.  This log is the one the built in parser uses, so I'll rename it
> > > and cat the months I want into a new one.
> > >
> > > My intial strategy was to get the BIG log file and parse it myself.
> >
> > awstats is an easy to configure web based log analysis tool that shows
> > everything most 'clients' wish to see.
> > http://awstats.sourceforge.net/
> > Once it parses log files once, it doesn't need to parse them
> > again, but it instead adds new data to the reports.
> >
> > I haven't run it on any huge datasets, but it seems to perform well
> > enough on logs of a million or so rows.
> 
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