To answer your first question: no, Analog will only analyze one bytes field -- either sent or received, so you probably want sent.
For the second question, I have clients who use Analog's byte counts for billing, but they don't rely on it as an absolute measurement -- it's more of a relative measurement or an approximation. -- Jeremy Wadsack Wadsack-Allen Digital Group Garrett Bartley ([EMAIL PROTECTED]; Thursday, June 27, 2002 11:57 AM): > Actually, I do believe that the difference is in the cs-bytes field (using > IIS 5.0) that I am also counting my the program that I have written. Is > there a way to make my own log format that uses %b twice (once for sc-bytes > and a second time for cs-bytes)? > Like Jeremy Wadsack stated in another reply, it's fairly negligable up until > you get into the high volume sites. That's when the difference is around > 200-300 MB. > However, my original question goes unanswered: are there people and/or > companies out there that use the statistics generated from analog for > billing purposes? > Thanks again, > Garrett Bartley > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Aengus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Thursday, June 27, 2002 1:48 PM > Subject: Re: [analog-help] Great for stats but what about billing? >> Garrett Bartley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> > Analog (with a little help from Report Magic) produces the best stats >> > anyone could hope for with trend and market analysis, but how much >> > trust should I put into for purposes of billing customers based on >> > data transfer? I'm not being skeptical about analog, I just wanted >> > to know if others are using it for billing purposes as well. >> > >> > I'm working for a quite successful startup and we've been looking >> > around at different packages and I've been working on writing my own >> > to keep us going for the time being. The numbers vary slightly from >> > analog (like maybe a couple hundred MB for 50+ GB transfers over a >> > month). Of course, my program could be wrong (probably is). >> > >> > So, what do you think? Do you use it for billing stats? Should I? >> >> Are you doing your counting from exactly the same log files as Analog? >> >> Analog probably isn't counting any bytes for log entries that have >> failure status codes. Try to enable the various failure reports, and see >> if they provide information about the "missing" bytes. >> >> If that doesn't do it, you might try taking a smaller log file, and see >> if you see a similar discrepancy, then split the log in two, and so on, >> to see if you can narrow it down to a handful of log entries that you >> can manually count, and decide which tool is more reliable. >> >> Aengus >> >> >> >> +------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> | This is the analog-help mailing list. To unsubscribe from this >> | mailing list, go to >> | http://lists.isite.net/listgate/analog-help/unsubscribe.html >> | >> | List archives are available at >> | http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ >> | http://lists.isite.net/listgate/analog-help/archives/ >> | http://www.tallylist.com/archives/index.cfm/mlist.7 >> +------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> > +------------------------------------------------------------------------ > | This is the analog-help mailing list. To unsubscribe from this > | mailing list, go to > | http://lists.isite.net/listgate/analog-help/unsubscribe.html > | > | List archives are available at > | http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > | http://lists.isite.net/listgate/analog-help/archives/ > | http://www.tallylist.com/archives/index.cfm/mlist.7 > +------------------------------------------------------------------------ +------------------------------------------------------------------------ | This is the analog-help mailing list. To unsubscribe from this | mailing list, go to | http://lists.isite.net/listgate/analog-help/unsubscribe.html | | List archives are available at | http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ | http://lists.isite.net/listgate/analog-help/archives/ | http://www.tallylist.com/archives/index.cfm/mlist.7 +------------------------------------------------------------------------
