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Revision as of 17:31, 16 August 2010
Approaches
I've used just about every logfile analysis tool known to man. Here are a few I use regularly.
Analog
Analog (coupled with ReportMagic) is the old stalwart. The graphs are ugly but the statistics are solid. Analog offers a huge number of configuration options and the ability to tweak just about every aspect of stat collection and report display.
For mapping non-resolved numerical IPs, I use jdresolve. It's fast and works very well.
awstats
Visitors
Website: http://hping.org/visitors
License: Open-source
Installation
wget http://www.hping.org/visitors/visitors-0.7.tar.gz tar xzf visitors-0.7.tar.gz cd visitors_0.7 make
Usage
Note: Logs here already contain IP addresses resolved by hostname bruteforce or jdresolve.
todd> zcat /home/todd/projects/wormbase/log_archive/with_hosts/access_log.2008.gz | \ visitors -A -T --prefix http://www.wormbase.org --prefix http://wormbase.org - \ > log_analysis.html
To generate a dot representation of trails, try
todd> zcat /home/todd/projects/wormbase/log_archive/with_hosts/access_log.2008.gz | \ visitors -A --prefix http://www.wormbase.org --prefix http://wormbase.org --graphviz - \ > log_analysis.html todd> dot graph.dot -Tpng > graph.png
Mint
Mint is a cool (and commercial) analytics tool. I use it for my personal sites but have never used to for analyzing the WormBase logs.