Last month we requested a report from IT department, we expected nice charts, averages, max request, minimum, peak hours \/ days \/ weeks, month. What we got was a nice 65MB RTF file with a copy & paste of Apache access.log.<\/p>\n
As professors my colleagues where outraged to say the least, \u00abhow are supposed to get any sense from this data?\u00bb, well I just take a copy on my USB stick, as we where handled a full CD to give us the info.<\/p>\n
As on 2006 I maintained a site for political discussion, with really big traffic, this short of analysis was no unknow to me, I know there are better tools for the job, but one fast, great and that you can use straight from CLI its webalizer, so I checked still was installed on my system, re-read some of the switches help and after like 4 attempts ended firing something like:<\/p>\n
webalizer Bigreport.log -v -i -j -b -T -n http:\/\/fu.bar\/ -D.cache -N 5 -o tmp\/<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
As you may notice first saved the RTF file to plain text<\/strong> just to be on the safe side.<\/p>\n
And voila!, we have better insight from the data… but next time, I just going to plain ask for a full backup of the site, DB and logs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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