Andy,
It might be a good idea to disable logging for everything besides your
actual pages or documents in order to reduce the size of your log
files. This can be easily achieved within IIS if the designers have
specific directories for images. That would on average reduce the size
of the logs by about 10 to 20 times, but it could be substantially more
if there is a heavy use of images. You might also make sure that you
aren't logging information that you aren't using in order to further
reduce the size of the log files. Such changes should only affect
reports that track images and bandwidth.
If you need to track bandwidth, there are much better tools out there
that can use SNMP (for dedicated servers), netflow or packet sniffing
for per-IP configs on both shared servers and dedicated servers instead
of relying on logs (won't work on host headered sites though). PRTG
Traffic Grapher from Paessler.com would do that.
WebTrends Live might be an option for the highest trafficked sites
instead of fully replacing your log analyzer due to scalability alone.
Matt
Andy Schmidt wrote:
Hi,
I've been running LiveStats ISP, but it's been terribly buggy for larger
sites (not to speak of the fact, that its database columns are too small to
deal with "high" volume sites - e.g., you can have more than 204 GB
bandwidth in any given period, such as weekly or monthly). Now they don't
even respond to requests to update me on the status of my reported problems
- while the system has been down for 2 weeks due to a reproducible failure.
Webtrends has never been "shining" either, with respect to stability and/or
support.
I do need an IIS web log analyzer that:
A) offers ad-hoc ('live') reporting
B) uses a database structure that does not limit volume (e.g., a JET
database won't do).
What is everyone else out there using?
Best Regards
Andy Schmidt
Phone: +1 201 934-3414 x20 (Business)
Fax: +1 201 934-9206
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