What Web Analyzer Should I Use

Need to identify IP addresses of users

[sfendless]

I need to know how I can glean the IP addresses from my web logs.

Our website is running on a Sun Solaris. I have been using the host's freebie app, Urchin 3.0, for log reports. The problem with this is that Urchin 3.0 will not identify the IP address of the end user. I need to identify these users and separate them from the rest of the data, as everyone at our firm accesses their mail from a link on the home page and it skews the data considerably.

I would like this to be a user-friendly, browser-based solution, as I'm pretty shaky at command line activity.

Any ideas?

[whoisgregg]

Do your log files contain the IP address? If you aren't capturing that data initially, no analysis software can add it later...

Make sure your log format is set to "combined" and you'll get an IP (or hostname, performance cache dependent) then try this log analyzer: Summary [summary.net] I use it and I have it set to pre filter out all local requests, by hostname and IP. :)

All administration is done through the web browser, there is no "app," per se.

[dcrombie]

Can't you just pipe the logfiles through logresolve before feeding them to Urchin?

[sfendless]

logresolve? what is that? is it a local log analyzer or a server-side filter? or...?

[dcrombie]

[httpd.apache.org...]
[aceldama.com...]

;)

[sfendless]

Thanks D!

[BwanaZulia]

I would go with AWstats.... I used to love Analog, but AWStats is miles above.

BZ

[HitsChatter]

Urchin is good for web analytics, but can be very expensive (we use it for our company site and for clients).

I'm currently using Webalizer for personal sites, though I don't like it nearly as much as AWStats

[Lord Majestic]

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/programs/logresolve.html
[aceldama.com...]

DNS resolutions will not provide as accurate information as those geo-IP databases that can amazingly pinpont cities and even coordinates associated with those locations!