John Stokes wrote, on September 7th:
>> What I need is the configuration command for analog alphanumeric
>> sorts of log files by host, with sub-sorts by date-time-filename of
>> files accessed by each.
Aengus_Lawlor wrote, on September 7th:
> One run, one report. If you want a report for each host, you run Analog
> once for each host.
>
> http://www.analog.cx/docs/faq.html#faq128
Aengus,
Thanks. For the periodic sampling I do from time to time to get the
qualitative flavor of selected host traffic patterns this may be
adequate. I'll see how long it takes.
Jeremy Wadsack wrote, on September 8th:
> Do you really look at the traffic patterns of 500 hosts every day?
> The point of Analog (and all other web log analyzers and similar
> statistics systems) is to provide summary information to help you
> understand large volumes of data. Sure it would be nice to be able
> to 'drill-down' to each host, but how often do you have time to do
> this and what does it gain you? Do you Actually look at the entire
> host report or only the top 50? For most of the report I configure,
> we don't even use the host report. We're not really interested in
> what the specific host IPs were, just aggregate summaries, like the
> domain and organization reports.
Jeremy,
For our instructional/inspirational small access volume website I am
not interested quantitatively in large volume stats, but
qualitatively in what "turns people on" - as disclosed through
selective examinations, as time permits, of the sequences in which
each week some 75 or so hosts move through some 50 or more file
requests each, sometimes staying on for several hours or coming back
and back several times.
My desire, after doing an alphanumeric sort, (#reqs 1st column), of
my analog hosts report for a week, is to search out and qualitatively
examine, as time permits, a few of the high request hosts, with their
respective accompanying sequential lists of requested files - on
sorts of these such as those which used to be e-mailed to me each
week by my previous server from the weblog log stats program output.
My present server won't support the weblog program, but will permit
me to put it up (if I can find it, and figure out how to do this). I
can't use this program locally on my computer, with raw log
downloads, as it's a unix program and I have a Mac.
Aengus_Lawlor wrote on September 8th:
> Analog is fast and accurate because it is designed to do a single
> job, and to do it well. If you simply want to sort your log file by
> host name, and output 3 columns, you could write a 3 line batch file
> to do it (grep logfile for date/time range, discard unwanted columns,
> sort). Adding this functionality to Analog would simply cause bloat,
> because Analog would have to remember things that it currently doesn't
> have to, and it wouldn't be any faster than using a standalone utility
> to do the job, because there isn't any overlap with what Analog is
> already doing.
Aengus,
Thanks.
I'll have this as a back-up alternative - although I'll have to find
someone to write even this simple program for me, as I am
programingly illiterate.
John Stokes
Mary's Gardens
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