anyone particularly happy with any individual product? I've got a 2gb log file here I'm trying to view, and I've gone through about 4 programs now and none seem to work for this
Is there just a section you are trying to view? If so, you might want to spin it through grep first to extract just what you want. I think most programs are going to have a problem loading the entire 2GB file into memory at once.
So did you find a solution? I need to view some logs too, been loading them in microsoft word and it's taking hours to load?? What other program to use to see the logs?
If you mean analyze rather than view, I would recommend WebLog Expert. If you mean view, any good text editor would be fine.
I have opened up pretty large files in Textpad. You may have to increase your paging file size though.
I've tried everything from textpad to ultraedit to notepad++. nothing seems to want to handle it. I ended up splitting the file up and looking at the individual chunks as nothing else was working my page file is pretty big- I've got 2gigs of ram so by default it's pretty huge.
What I do is I run Webalizer on a one-day log - this gives me a snapshot of website's activity for the day. Then I pick any interesting bits from the report (e.g. particular host being too busy, particular page requested too many times, particular time range is too busy than any other, etc) and filter the log file based on this criteria. The resulting file is usually much, much smaller than the original. I use sed/grep/findstr for filtering, depending on the platform. J.D.