Analyzing Your Logs with Open-source Tools

There are a number of commercial and open-source tools that you can use to process and display your log data. They usually take a log file, analyze its contents, and create a series of web pages with the relevant statistics.

The following are some popular, freely available, open source applications for general log analysis:

• Webalizer http://www.mrunix.net/webalizer/

• AWStats http://awstats.sf.net

Other tools allow you more advanced log processing, such as visually displaying the path followed by your visitors:

• Visitors http://www.hping.org/visitors/

• Pathalizer http://pathalizer.bzzt.net/