Looking for a 'log parser'.

[T0PS3O]

Hi,

Reading access and error logs is a nightmare! Add to that an OsCommerce parse time log (also hundreds of lines in notepad without formatting) and it's a pin to find out what's going on.

So I figured I need some kind of Log Parser or a program that reads in the log and outputs it formatted.

I'm not sure how one would call such a tool and whether it exists so I'm having a hard time finding it.

Does it exist? If so, where can I get one? If not, how do you guys/girls read your logs?

[flawebworks]

If you have access to your raw log files; go download this free log analyzer:

http://www.funnelwebcentral.com/idx.php?body=down_win

For an inexpensive parser; you could go to http://wusage.com

[digitalpoint]

http://www.urchin.com is nice (although not free).

[DangerMouse]

AW Stats (http://sourceforge.net/projects/awstats) is *free* and pretty cool too. Don't think it'll handle you OSCommerce logs though ;)

[T0PS3O]

OK, I've checked out Funnel and it looks OK but not what I need. I already have some basic stuff with webalizer which is OK for now. I guess I should have asked for parsers for the error log files.

I can read it alright in Excel but it'd be nice to get (just like with Funnel) some aggregate stats on the issues reported in the error log.

AWstats seems a nice tool to replace the not-so-interesting Webalizer (I use statcounter as well though) I'll check that out now as well.

Urchin appears to be a more complete package which I might well be using sometime soon after listing what I want first.

[J.D.]

I can read it alright in Excel but it'd be nice to get (just like with Funnel) some aggregate stats on the issues reported in the error log.Use MS Access instead - you can handle much more data this way. It has somewhat decent graphing as well (take a look at PivotChart View in query types). I tried about 700K+ records and it worked fine, except that it took a while to build a graph and chewed up about 500M while doing it.

J.D.

[crazyhorse]

Im using weblog expert, and im using robot text editor to analyze all my log files. Just realised that this isnt what your asking for.

[mopacfan]

I highly recommend Sawmill from Flowerfire.com.

[riziko]

If you use IIS or your logs are w3c compatible you could try http://www.logparser.com/. It is free but you have to be technically inclined I think.

Ross