How to trace googlebot?

trace googlebot

[gesbos1]

How can I trace the activity of googlebot on my site? I know that certain logs contain data about googlebot, but I'm not sure which ones, AND, my logs are between 300 mb and 500 mb each so searching would be impossible. 2 questions:

1) What log traces googlebot activity (I have Apache http)?

2) What tool can summarize my log data and give me info about how deep googlebot goes?

Thank you Thank you

[ciml]

I just search the files using something like grep (I'm usually on Linux, but there are search tools for Windows too).

300-500mb isn't a lot to search; when the 'new Googlebot?' thread started on Saturday I searched through 13GB on one of our servers to see how active it was.

If you're not comfortable importing the results into a database for analysis, you can analyse the logs with any competant Web stats package. Often, you'll find that you can run the stat's software with a parameter to include only Googlebot referrers so you don't even need to split them off yourself.

[onlineleben]

Get an analyzing software like Analog. It is free and available in Windows and Linux versions.
Download your logfile and configure the analyzer to just list the visits from googlebot.