Best web log analyzer

[Monyong]

Whats the best web log analyzer and where can i get it?

[klamath]

analog? try freshmeat.net

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[Craig McPherson]

Webalizer is good. If you like the looks of it (see what the output looks like at http://www.bsu-hog.org/stats/usage_200008.html ), you should be able to download it from just about anywhere. The home page is http://www.mrunix.net/webalizer/, but you can probably get it at Freshmeat or wherever.

[jdlangdon]

I'm using the NT version of Webtrends log Analyzer and it works great. The Linux version is available at http://www.webtrends.com/site_download/ers_download.htm?product=wtrs

Jason

[CrashTestDummy]

I tried Webalizer for about 1.5 months and didn't have great success with it. It doesn't seem to report the bandwidth usage or the page vies correctly. Possibly I'm doing something wrong, but I ended up going back to using Analog 4.xx. The data transfer amounts seems more realistic in Analog than what Webalizer reported.

WebTrends is nice. Real pretty too. It would be even prettier f it didn't cost so much. http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/frown.gif

[rayjones]

Agreed, analog will win no beauty contests, but, after looking at several, I am still using it. I dunno, the data is presented in such a clear, quick way, I can see what's happening at the first glance.
I have it on my homepage, if you want to take a look.

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[Sensei]

Ive used webalizer for a long time. Before that I was using Analog and from my experience I found that Analog was counting stats wayyyyyy under what they should've been.

Webalizer outputs pretty close to what Internet.com outputs. I run webalizer on my own and Internet.com uses their own log analyzer (not webalizer).

Webalizer usually puts out 1k more page views than what Internet.com tells me.

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[Monyong]

I already installed webalizer and analog on my machine but found that they only take one log files for input and i have virtual host on my server so how do i make the analyzer analyzes the logs files of the virtual host. log files created by apache for each virtual host are agent_log, error_log, referer_log transfer_log

[njcajun]

Whoever said WebTrends - I agree! I think WebTrends is fantastic. It's fairly new AFAIK, but it's pretty awesome. Check it out, definitely.

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[Sensei]

Actually web trends has been around a long time.

They are just pushing themselves into the linux space, but it was used on windows for many years.

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[7DeadlySins]

In my experience, if you are producing these for clients, then webtrends seems to be the popular choice.. almost an industry standard. if its just for yourself, i'd use webalizer, as the one huge down side to webtrends (other than its commericial license of course) is it can take a long time to process your logs. webalizer is much faster.

7DS

[Monyong]

I got webalizer working. I want to set it up as a cron job . how frequent do you set it to run? weekly? i'm planning on using it with logrotated which logrotated logs file weekly.

Also it i want to setup up a script to run every 5 min. whats the best way to do this?

1. edit crontab and add the script

2. make a script.cron and use crontab script.cron to run it?

[Monyong]

I just found out that apache doesn;t update the access_log until it is reloaded or restarted while error_log update immediately. Is this normal? If so where does it store log files b4 reload? do i have to reload httpd everytime i want to analyze logs?