What's your favorite Apache log analyzer?

October 15, 2004 10:17 AM

What's your favorite Apache log analyzer?
posted by frenetic to Computers & Internet (18 answers total)

Analog
posted by maniactown at 10:35 AM on October 15, 2004

AWStats has never let me down.
posted by cmonkey at 10:47 AM on October 15, 2004

WebLog Expert Lite is good for windows if you don't want to curse at text config files. The Lite version has no customizations but it's free.
posted by smackfu at 10:54 AM on October 15, 2004

http-analyze was good, but looks like they've removed the free version.
posted by misterioso at 11:00 AM on October 15, 2004

Webalizer for free, Urchin for pay.
posted by togdon at 11:07 AM on October 15, 2004

Second AWStats
posted by revgeorge at 11:32 AM on October 15, 2004

I use Webalizer, but I ain't picky.
posted by majcher at 11:33 AM on October 15, 2004

i like webalizer.
posted by Hackworth at 11:40 AM on October 15, 2004

I like AWStats. Written in perl, it's not too terribly hard to customize if you need extra functionality. Also, the results are available as XML if you want to feed them to something else.
posted by Caviar at 11:59 AM on October 15, 2004

I, too, rather like Analog. But since I occasionally want to query logs on an ad-hoc basis, I find that a carefully crafted combination of grep and wc gets the job done nicely.
posted by majick at 12:03 PM on October 15, 2004

I use Analog as well, plus a few homebrew Perl scripts. I also have a tendency, like majick, to build large pipelines on the command line using grep, sort, wc, awk, and perl.
posted by thebabelfish at 2:30 PM on October 15, 2004

Another for AWStats.


Running total:
AWStats: 4
Analog: 3
Webalizer: 3
http-analyze: 1
WebLog Expert Lite: 1 (defunct?)
posted by Ryvar at 2:39 PM on October 15, 2004

I use Webalizer, personally. At work, we use the commercial Sawmill, which lets you get into an extreme level of detail. (You can track the activity of a single IP or authenticated user over time, at the individual page level.)
posted by waxpancake at 3:03 PM on October 15, 2004

I use a combination of Analog plus the grep feature of BBedit when I need to really narrow down some weird web behavior. Analog can be really unuseful if you don't customize it right. last time I looked, someone had built a cutie little GUI analog.cfg creator that made writing your config files much easier. I like Urchin sort of but I find that I have to do an awful lot of clicking [in my host's default settings of Urchin anyhow] to get any real idea of what is going on with my site. Analog dumps everything on one page and does it quickly. It's easy to run out of a shell account and just have it post a report to your web space somewhere.
posted by jessamyn at 5:48 PM on October 15, 2004

i've used analog and webalizer - prefer the former but currently use the latter because that's what was installed at the isp.
posted by andrew cooke at 9:06 PM on October 15, 2004

awstats is very nice.
posted by websavvy at 10:09 PM on October 15, 2004

Summary.net is good.

If you're already using Analog, check out Report Magic.
posted by kindall at 8:53 AM on October 16, 2004

Grep and pipe to wc from the command line. All the rest if for suckas!
posted by squirrel at 9:13 AM on October 16, 2004