On Tue, Aug 29, 2000 at 03:36:25PM -0700, Kapil Thangavelu wrote:
Anyway, I've been thinking of polishing and expanding what I've written some, so it's suitable for public use (or at least use by people who know Zope/Python fairly well). But this requires work that I probably wouldn't do for myself -- so I'm writing to see if there are enough people who have interest in this to make it worth it. [Or if this already exists and I just haven't found it]
zope's logs are in a pretty standard format so most of your loganalyzers should handle them well and several of them can be customized to ignore certain ips or urls.
Of course. I'm actually parsing Apache logs on my own site, as this covers both the Zope and non-Zope portions of my page. The basic analysis isn't Zope-specific, just more Zope-accessible. For instance, hits are returned as a list of page/count pairs, and then you can format then as you wish with DTML. Any of these things that I've done could be done by other log analyzers, and I expect they have been. They could probably be done better: the real advantage of what I'm doing (in my own experience) is that I have a fair amount of control to do whatever I want, not just what was included in the software. Anyone who knows some Python would be able to have a similar amount of control.
i've been told that http://www.webalizer.org/ is pretty nice.
a zope web logs analyzer that makes images with PIL integrated into the control panel, is on my list of things to do although its pretty low at the moment.
I hadn't been thinking of using PIL myself -- though it would be relatively easy, I suppose, to add another layer that creates graphs from the (relatively) raw data. -- Ian