Log Analyzer

General Web Coding Microsoft Development
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Can anyone suggest a good IIS log analyzer for analyzing the logs that Jodohost provides us from our sites? I have tried several and can’t find a good one.

I’m looking for one that doesn’t run it’s own web server, or need a web server at all. I would prefer a normal desktop app, that can produce pretty pictures and graphs (cause we all like colour). It would also need to limit the stats by day/week/month as required.

Ideally this would be a free tool. but a small fee is OK.

I have already tried SmarterStats (good but slow and it needs its own web server), SawMill (kept crashing and needed its own web server), and Mach5 FastStats (which is pretty good).

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

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Are you aware that JodoHost provides you with a free one called webalizer(you need to enable it), which can be accessed through http://www.yourdomain.com/webalizer ?

If you already know about it then ignore my post.

Danial

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The old stand alone webtrends was excellent, I am not sure if you can still get it or not.

Then there are some decent open source ones as well, listed below:
http://www.reportmagic.org/ (personally used, good once you figure it out)
http://awstats.sourceforge.net/ (which can run locally or one the webserver, it is in perl, also personally used, and it is great)
And then among the free, and I have not used these:
http://www.weblogexpert.com/lite.htm
http://nodesoft.com/
http://www.codecutters.org/?page=/software/gimli.html
http://www.irnis.net/ (Golden Phrases is the name of the software here)
http://www.axeuk.com/xlogan.htm
http://www.webalizer.org/ ← you can also use webalizer on your own machine, and make a custom config file that will output results differently, and do more with them

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For the sake of the next guy, here’s what I found…

WebLog Expert ( http://www.weblogexpert.com )
A good program that has a whole host of features. Worked well on my numerous and large log files. Only problem I saw was the need to do live DNS lookups, which slowed down the processing of the log files. Pretty pictures though. Doesn’t run a local web server, but creates web pages and stores them locally. Also can be scheduled.

M5 Analyzer ( Log File Analysis - FastStats Log File Analyzer: Quick, powerful, and affordable web analytics )
Another good one, similar to WebLog Expert, but locally caches the DNS lookup tables. No web pages created here, but has a nice explorer-type browser. Faster than WebLog Expert when processing the log files.
EDIT: M5 has a problem recognizing hits bwteen midnight and 1 AM when you use the time zone offset to compensate for the change in time zones in the log file.

XLogan ( http://www.axeuk.com/xlogan.htm )
Kind of sux. No profiles, I could only get it to process a single log file at a time, and it resulted in an error. A definate no-go.

More to come…

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I would add one more to make the list complete.
Check out http://www.tenmiles.com/livemon/index.php .

It parses IIS , w3c , apache log files within fraction of seconds. They have a free 30 day trial version also.

Cheers,
Celia