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On Thu, Jun 21, 2007 at 03:08:25PM +0100, Dan Fairs wrote:
> So what're people using for Apache log file analysis and reporting  
> these days? I'd like to be able to provide a combined server report  
> (for me) and a per-vhost report for vhost owners.

/dev/null and analytics? 

It's so much easier than the cycle that seems to happen where whatever
product lasts about two years as useful and then starts breaking or
being too much hassle. Some even seem to reach some O(n^2) or worse
problem where it takes longer to work out the logging on a hit than
you've got time between them coming in - sometimes far worse than
that.

Been involved in providing a number of replacements - no doubt all to
replaced again in two years when the same cycle happens.

grep is my favourite so far, but perl may well be the best tool for
the job, often just for vanity self-congratulatory stuff, not for real
analysis though - a hit counter on the page would be about as useful
in some scenarios. IMHO.

        Steve