Re: log file analysis

On 25 Jul, Kris Dahl wrote: > I am wondering what you all are using to do log file analysis, etc. > > We are running into some issues with PHP in that a lot of log file analysis > tools are not very 'php/cgi/dynamic content' friendly. Many of our sites > run entirely thru a single 'script' with templates, etc. so the file that is > requested isn't as important as what the GET query was. > > We also use two user tokens--one that is for the session which is passed > from page to page, and another which identifies the specific user based on a > cookie. > > Some products taht we are looking at are NetTracker from Sane, Webtrends > Enterprise Suite and Enterprise Reporting Server, iLux (which looks like it > doesn't support Linux), and Accrue's Hit List (which since purchased from > Marketwave is apparently like 6 times as expensive). > > Its a shame that there aren't any 'full-featured' open source log analyzers. > The closest I can find is Webalizer--which is pretty cool but still has some > catch up to play before they are on the level with Web Trends, etc. > > I have a feeling that I am going to have use something off-the-shelf like > webalizer for the 'jist' of it, and our own tools to extract specific info. > Is this the way other people are approaching the problem? You might also consider http-analyse, which does report information including 'get' strings. Check it out at http://www.netstore.de/Supply/http-analyze If you want to see a live site, let me know and I'll send you an url to my site stats. Cheers -- David Robley | WEBMASTER & Mail List Admin RESEARCH CENTRE FOR INJURY STUDIES | http://www.nisu.flinders.edu.au/ AusEinet | http://auseinet.flinders.edu.au/ Flinders University, ADELAIDE, SOUTH AUSTRALIA