Re: Tools for better viewing Apache access logs?

["Mark A. Craig" <mark.a.craig@xxxxxxxxx>]

Chirouze:

I'd give Splunk a try (since I have far less than 500MB per day), but 
I'm using an unsupported platform, that nasty old Windows 2000.  Can I 
settle for a copy of your spreadsheet and macro instead?  :-)

Mark

Chirouze Olivier wrote:
> 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.
> > >
> > >
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