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Server logs are simply not powerful enough for most types of analysis, even basic analysis. Also, tools don’t exist to do the basic analysis in a meaningful way
by codezero 8y ago
Server logs are simply not powerful enough for most types of analysis, even basic analysis. Also, tools don’t exist to do the basic analysis in a meaningful way. It’s a catch 22, I’d love to see useful tools that work on server logs, but it’s not 1999 any more.
- zubspace 8y agoI keep repeating myself, but there is goaccess [1] which is powerful enough for most use cases. It creates a nice realtime, html report of your apache or nginx logs. It can even show you a report inside the terminal. [1] https://goaccess.io/ https://goaccess.io/
- codezero 8y agoThat’s a nice overview for a sysadmin but doesn’t provide tools for making business decisions for non-sysadmins.