Hi Mark, I suggest you have a look at Splunk (http://www.splunk.com/products/218) which will definitively do things you don't need, but probably do what you need, too ;-) I ended up creating an Excel macro to just play with logs, too. I can even provide it to you if you want! Olivier Olivier CHIROUZE I&0 Infrastructure Volvo Information Technology > -----Original Message----- > From: Mark A. Craig [mailto:mark.a.craig@xxxxxxxxx] > Sent: 04 May 2007 08:58 > To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: Tools for better viewing Apache > access logs? > > Yep, I've wound up finding and downloading nearly a dozen alleged log > analyzers, but most of them seem to do things I don't want while not > doing what I do want, which is a simple columnar display of the logs, > perhaps with a few filtering or sorting choices. I actually screwed > around with importing the log into Excel, which got me closer > to what I > want (at the moment) than any of those analyzers I've > installed so far. > One of them even made things MORE confused, because it functioned > through the browser by hitting the server and adding dozens of new > irrelevant hits to the Apache log. What's that old science > cliche about > the act of observation altering the subject? >:-( > > Mark > > Joshua Slive wrote: > > On 5/3/07, Mark A. Craig <mark.a.craig@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> Thanks again to those who helped me get past my BSOD > problem and finally > >> put Apache to use. Now that I'm using it, I'm wondering > if there's some > >> tool that exists to enhance and restructure the display of > information > >> in Apache's access log? I'd like to view the log with a > hostname and > >> more column-structured, in particular. The previous > server I was using > >> included hostnames and displayed everything in > well-ordered columns, and > >> I found those to be a very helpful features. Is there a > viewing utility > >> for Apache that can display the log in (configurable) columns and > >> resolve the IP addresses to hostnames and display those as well? > >> > >> That hostname feature was how I immediately knew when the U.S. > >> government had been snooping on my blog: > >> 150.148.0.27/wallwhale-pub.fda.gov. ;-) > > > > If you want to see what is happening on your server at a particular > > moment, check mod_status and the server-status handler. > > > > If you want to see hostnames, you'll need to turn > HostnameLookups On, > > but that will have performance effects. > > > > If what you want is just to better analyze requests to your > server in > > general, you should use a log analysis tool. Try googling > for "Apache > > log analysis" and similar... > > > > Joshua. > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server > > Project. > > See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP > Server Project. > See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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