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Looking for a 'log parser'.

Discussion in 'Traffic Analysis' started by T0PS3O, Mar 21, 2005.

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    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?
     
    T0PS3O, Mar 21, 2005 IP
  2. flawebworks

    flawebworks Tech Services

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  3. digitalpoint

    digitalpoint Overlord of no one Staff

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  4. DangerMouse

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    AW Stats is *free* and pretty cool too. Don't think it'll handle you OSCommerce logs though ;)
     
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  5. T0PS3O

    T0PS3O Feel Good PLC

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    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.
     
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    J.D. Peon

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    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.
     
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    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.
     
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    I highly recommend Sawmill from Flowerfire.com.
     
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    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
     
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