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What real-time log analyzer can you suggest for Apache access and error logs?

There is a list of web analytics software on wikipedia, but it would be great to hear opinions from people with experience without having to try all of them.

Please don't suggest Google Analytics or any other hosted/javascript analytics suites, already using them, GA is not real-time and it is missing some data that the logs show. For example 404 errors, script errors, the full query-string of the referral, IP addresses, visitor path through the website, etc ...

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can this be turned into community-wiki? – Evgeny Nov 2 '10 at 16:07

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I was using Urchin before I swithed to GA, and I see it is still available: http://www.google.com/urchin/

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didn't know urchin could analyze logs -- but it can! this is great! – Evgeny Nov 2 '10 at 15:56
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only downside is that it costs a fortune :/ – Evgeny Nov 2 '10 at 15:58
Too bad there's no community edition or open source equivalent... – Lèse majesté Nov 3 '10 at 12:45
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Urchin has been discontinued. – Daniel C. Sobral May 4 '12 at 18:49
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GoAccess is a free text/curses based log analyzer similar to "top".

GoAccess main scrollable dashboard

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AWStats is a good open source solution.

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doesn't support nginx – We are the World Aug 20 '12 at 3:07
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This might seem like a bit of overkill, but Splunk offers web log analyzing and much, much more.

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Piwik is a good choice (better than awstats, in my opinion)

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unfortunately their website does not seem to work at the moment. – Evgeny Sep 19 '12 at 11:27
it's working fine now. – endyourif Sep 24 '12 at 13:47
This is the right link for "Log Analyzer" feature of Piwik: piwik.org/log-analytics – NickT Feb 5 at 8:28
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If you're looking for an offline analyzer, I quite like Sawmill:

https://www.sawmill.co.uk

It analyses all sorts of logs, including apache. Has a free trial period.

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Just found a very interesting service, it is actually much more than log analytis - more like a view of the buzz your blog creates, in real-time https://chartbeat.com/.

Another tool that shows real-time apache log streams I found, called A Live Log.

There must be more things like these out there ...

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