On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 09:26:42AM +0100, Stephen Turner wrote:
> e) Not particularly, actually. I don't see why it's important which requests
> came in during busy times? 

Think of it as the "slashdotted" report. When someone -- even a site not as
big as Slashdot -- links to your site from the front page, there's often a
burst of traffic. If that site is actually Slashdot, this will be obvious in
your overall request/referral reports. But if it's something smaller, it
might still not rank very high in the overall or even 7d reports -- lost in
the noise.


> d) This would be hard. It's clear that it requires two passes through the
> logfile, isn't it? (Or storing a _lot_ of state: see docs/faq.html#faq128)

Yes, that's true. But it'd only need to save the cross-referenced stuff for
one minute and then could throw it away if that minute weren't one of the
n busiest. I guess the same argument could be made for files-per-referrer,
etc., and you're not buying that. :) 


> c) Analog does tell you which is the busiest five minutes, at the bottom of
> the Five Minute Report (for your favourite definition of "busiest").

Right, I know that -- but only the very busiest five. It'd be nice if it
could tell the n busiest. "n" being some reasonable number. Also, this
appears to be over the last exactly 24 hours, which I guess is okay but it'd
be nicer to also have the information for 7 days and all time. If analog
would do this, then I could take this suggestion:

> Oh, you could do the following, if you don't want to parse logfiles
> yourself. Write a very simple script, which runs analog twice: once to
> calculate which are the top 5 minutes, and once with FROM and TO to restrict
> analog to those minutes only. That's probably the easiest way to do it.



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