Re: web log analysis
On Thursday, August 22, 2002, at 09:47 AM, Russell Coker wrote:
A client needs a program that does similar things to webalizer, but
also
allows breaking everything completely by day at least (and preferrably
by
hour too).
Doing it the way webalizer does (static web pages and gifs) probably
won't
scale too well for such use, so something based on a database will
probably
be best.
Also ideally it should handle multiple virtual hosts.
Any ideas?
If you're not adverse to paying money, Urchin 4 seems to be quite good
and very scalable.
It is, of course, $695 for the first 100 'profiles' (domains I think
that means) then $595 for each 100 after that. Obviously, you'd have to
charge your client a fee for using Urchin :)
The reports it generates are, however, excellent. Not sure how they
compare to the analog + reportmagic mix that Joel suggests, as I've not
tried it, but the reports are much better than what analog generates by
itself.
It handles virtual hosts with several methods. You can either point it
to one big logfile with all the virtualhosts logging there, or you can
specify different logs for each virtual host (only scalable to a few
hundred domains before you hit FD issues). If you have multiple
webservers with load balancing across them, it will handle that too. If
you don't want to use the Urchin admin system, you can write scripts to
run the urchin log processor manually. Its all well documented.
You can trial it for free, so I'd at least have a look at it, and
reportmagic, and anything else you find and compare and see what floats
your boat.
Nathan.
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