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Analog

The Computer Science Department uses a program called analog to analyze the usage of the CS Web Server.

View statistics for:
| March | April | May | June | July | August | September | October |

Creating Individualized Statistic Files

You can use analog to generate custom statistics for your web pages. The easiest way to do it is to use this form-based interface. To restrict the reports to only your web pages, fill in 
/~username/*
in Part 3 where it asks for "Only certain requested files". You may also want to change the values in Part 4 to your username and your URL.

Alternatively, you can run analog from the command line to procduce custom reports. First create a custom configuration file. A custom config file might look like this: 

HOSTNAME    "Your Name"
HOSTURL     "http://websrv.cs.fsu.edu/~username"
FILEINCLUDE /~username/*
BROWSER     OFF
FULLBROWSER OFF
ERROR       OFF
Note: The Browser and Error reports do not work for individual users. That is why these reports are turned off.

Assuming the name of your custom config file is myanalog.cfg, you can then run analog in the following manner: 

analog +gmyanalog.cfg > mystats.html
There are two nice features to using a custom config file. First, once you have it set up, you can use it every month and not have to remember how you configured last month. Second, the config file gives you much greater control over how your report will look -- almost every feature of analog can be customed configured. For detailed information, please read the analog README. You can also look at a sample custom config file.

A Note About the Log Files

The log files generated by our web server take up a considerable amount of space. Because the log files are so large, only the current month's and one previous month's log files are available. For example, during the month of April, March's log files will be available in /home/system/weblogs. So anytime during the month of April you can generate statistics for March. By default, analog looks to this directory for the log files.

If you are unwilling to wait until the month is over to generate reports, you can find the current log files in /home/httpd/share/var/logs. You must point analog to this directory for each of the log files (see the README for details).

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