Monitoring traffic on your site in REAL TIME...

Is there such a service?

[bossmanty]

Similar to one of the IM customer support services. I've used one of those on a trial basis but I only like the idea of knowing when a visitor(s) are on my site....

An alarm sounds when visitors are on your website...

Is there such a service?

[Mardi_Gras]

This one will do it - I have never used it, though, so I can't give any comments good or bad. You can try a demo on their site.

www.whos-on.net

[bossmanty]

Thanks,
I downloaded the trial version but the software wants access to your *.log file and my host doesn't allow access to those files.

[pageoneresults]

You might want to look at LiveStats or WebTrends Live. I'm using WTL and have been impressed so far. There are a few other topics here discussing live statistics programs. You might want to try a site search for live stats, etc.

[amoore]

I wrote one.

I started by using Apache::DBILogger to write all of my access logs to my mysql database. I then wrote some scripts to dig stuff out of there daily and make some tables, charts, pictures, and stuff. That stuff is described here: [mooresystems.com...]

That wasn't enough, so I wrote a mod_perl module to dig stuff out of my database on the fly. You can see the last few hits and then filter them based on remote IP address, user-agent, and all kinds of things. That's here: [gotany.com...]

I really don't host much, I just write this stuff to set up on other people's machines, so there's not much to my stats.

If you just want to know when someone hits your page, though, a good thing to do is to make that page a CGI script that sends a mail to your pager. Simple enough.

Hope it helps.

-Andy

[Mardi_Gras]

the software wants access to your *.log file and my host doesn't allow access to those files

You are past time for a new host...

[Lisa]

tail -f /www/logs/yourwebsite.com/access_log

:) Seems to do the trick very nicely!

[Lundy]

The LivePerson(HumanClick) service will let you watch as every person on the site goes page by page, everything they do & the IP address....but it is kinda pricey. Human Click started out free and it was great fun to watch. Now minimum is about $700 yr I think.

[bossmanty]

I can find a couple of services that are just as good or better for a lot less. But I really don't need the cst service part of it.... I just thought it would be something out there that sends off a signal like human click to let you know when a visitor has enter your site.

[Brett_Tabke]

umm, ever try:

tail -f yourlogspath.log

[backus]

we used to have a program called LiveStats. It was interesting to see who was online at that very moment...

[lazerzubb]

On websites who have less than 1000-2000 visitors per day a session works fine, i use it myself on smaller site and can track where the user comes from (refer, SE etc) user system, time and ip, and i can follow which page he/she is looking etc. i can pretty much follow everything they do without the logfile.

[BlobFisk]

AFAIK NetIQ's WebTrends [netiq.com] Live will do this for you. The downside: It's not free! :)

If you are using an NT or Win2K server, within the Management Console there is an option (whose name eludes me right now!) where you can track the number of http users, ftp users etc. This would also give you a live indication of number.

HTH