I use a centralized log server. For *nix servers, it is easy to do instanteous remote logging of every request. for Windows, it is not quite as easy, but doable. Had to get the free logging agents from the Snare folks for stupid IIS, and kiwi command line logger for Windows Apache. It took a lot of playing with formatting of the loggers/web servers and analog to get all happy in one giant log file, but it is a relief.
It is very good security to keep the access logs on another machine that won't be effected if the web server is hacked. But I also keep individual server logs, for careful machine analysis. It doesn't "cost" much to do so, and greatly assists in problem resolution etc. On 1/1/07, howard chen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 1/2/07, Stephen Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 01/01/07, Klaus Johannes Rusch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > You are measuring something different though: with log analysis you > > measure hits to resources on your webserver(s), including images, > > downloadable files etc. and from JavaScript enabled browsers as well as > > other user agents like search engines, with pixel tracking you are > > measuring page views by JavaScript enabled browsers. Both are useful > > analyses but you won't get the same type of information. > > > > IBM developerWorks has a good article covering both approaches, see > > http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/web/library/wa-mwt1/ > > > > Another article on the differences between the two methods is > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_analytics (much of which I wrote). > > -- > Stephen Turner > +------------------------------------------------------------------------ > | TO UNSUBSCRIBE from this list: > | http://lists.meer.net/mailman/listinfo/analog-help > | > | Analog Documentation: http://analog.cx/docs/Readme.html > | List archives: http://www.analog.cx/docs/mailing.html#listarchives > | Usenet version: news://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.web.analog.general > +------------------------------------------------------------------------ > thanks! +------------------------------------------------------------------------ | TO UNSUBSCRIBE from this list: | http://lists.meer.net/mailman/listinfo/analog-help | | Analog Documentation: http://analog.cx/docs/Readme.html | List archives: http://www.analog.cx/docs/mailing.html#listarchives | Usenet version: news://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.web.analog.general +------------------------------------------------------------------------
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