[thelist] More interesting news / NetIQ buys WebTrends for $1 Billion

[Michael Buffington]

Price.com uses Webtrends Enterprise to parse our daily log files
(200-400MB/day/site).  It takes about 12 hours total to download, parse, and
generate the reports.  We have a box dedicated to just Webtrends reporting,
with something like 512MB of ram and some heavy duty CPU's (dual).  I don't
even think it's overkill, as we've had to upgrade to what we have in order
to get our stats in our inbox in the mornings.  If we threw multiple
computers into the mix we could cut the time in half.

I'd love to see a good alternative to Webtrends that can do it quickly and
easily.

Also, for those with large log files, how are you managing those in the long
term?

We're archiving ours on tape backups, but we're curious about what other's
are doing.

Michael Buffington
mike at price.com
(714) 556-3890 x222
http://www.price.com 

-----Original Message-----
From: Raymond Camden [mailto:rcamden at allaire.com]
Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2001 7:50 AM
To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
Subject: RE: [thelist] More interesting news / NetIQ buys WebTrends for
$1 Billion


For a site whose daily logs average around 140-150 megs, how do you think
the speed would be? I currently use HitBox for my log reporting, but when I
really want to parse logs, I use a program called FastStats. It's not as
flashy as Webtrends, but it was written in assembly and can parse a large
log file in less then a minute. (Plus it's only 60 or so bucks I think.)

=======================================================================
Raymond Camden, Principal Spectra Compliance Engineer for Allaire

Email   : jedimaster at allaire.com
ICQ UIN : 3679482

"My ally is the Force, and a powerful ally it is." - Yoda

> -----Original Message-----
> From: thelist-admin at lists.evolt.org
> [mailto:thelist-admin at lists.evolt.org]On Behalf Of Herzog, Ari
> Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2001 10:48 AM
> To: 'thelist at lists.evolt.org'
> Subject: RE: [thelist] More interesting news / NetIQ buys WebTrends for
> $1 Billion
>
>
> We use the Log Analyzer version here at work.
> The newest version, released last fall, v.6, is faster
> than it previously busy.
>
> -Ari
>


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