Re: [squid-users] Opinions on Log Analysis

Sam,

On Fri, 13 Jun 2003, Sam Pointer wrote:
> We have been using Squid for some time now to provide HTTP access for our
> user population here. We now have a management need to make more sense of
> our access.log. Looking at the log analysis pages on squid-cache.org I see
> that there are a great number of tools out there for this kind of work.
>
> The reports generated will be seen by management people rather than anyone
> with any technical grasp. Things that would be nice are:
>
> - HTML output
> - Some sort of "per user" summary on a daily basis of time spent browsing
> the web (I know that this is perhaps a difficult thing to quantify)
> - A weekly and monthly summary digest of a user's level of activity
> - Graphing is good :)
> - The flagging and reporting of dubious site access
>
> If anyone can recommend a tool which handles most of these tasks then I'm
> not adverse to filling in the gaps with a bit of Perl; I'm just loathe to
> re-invent the wheel from scratch.

We use Webalizer which does everything our management requires. You can
get it from http://www.mrunix.com/webalizer/. See if it does all you
need... We run one overall report and then individual users / sites as
and when required.

HTH,

                                Neil.

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Neil Hillard                    hillardn@whl.co.uk
Westland Helicopters Ltd.       http://www.whl.co.uk/
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