Any good tool for Viewing Apache Logs?
 

My logs are starting to be very massive and messy, I need something that can filter things out.
Do you know any good software that can handle very large logs and help with filtering them?
I mean something local like apacheviewer not serwer site stats awstats, webalizer etc.
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Do you have any budget? WebLogExpert is handy for filtering and can cope with a gig quite easily if you have the patience - 10-15 mins or so.

They do a 30 day trial.

If you want to shrink log, you should set log not to write anything what is not important. For example, image access is one of things which generate huge log while in reality you dont need it, as for example if you have a page with 100 images, it will be logged 100 lines everytime when someone loads that page. That is how i resolved problem with toobig log.

Thanks, I will take a look. :thumbsup

Unfortunately, image case is crucial here. But yeah, I've already filtered out some irrelevant stuff in the config like "apache dummy connections".

Well, even in that case you could separate image access to different log file so you can navigate faster.

Hmm that could be a good idea if it's doable. I haven't thought about it..

It is, here is nice article about it:
How do I... Customize Apache Server log files to track my Web site? - TechRepublic

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