[analog-help] The next 'best' analyzer...?

[Walter Ian Kaye]

At 09:55 a -0400 08/31/2007, Jason Linhart didst inscribe upon an 
electronic papyrus:

>Per Jessen wrote:
>>
>>I find it difficult to believe that no-one has picked up where Stephen
>>left off - are there no developers on this list?  I did some work (XML
>>output) on analog myself about three years ago, but right now I just
>>haven't got the time to get involved.
>
>Web server log analysis is a fairly mature field at this point. 
>AWStats, <http://www.awstats.org/>, another popular open source log 
>analyzer, has had more recent development effort than Analog. But 
>even they are running out of features to add and have dramatically 
>slowed their development efforts.

I wonder how much of their development is just patching security holes....
(I had installed AWStats for a user, and then found that it got used 
to install a spam sender on my server. :/ )

>The same is true of the commercial products. There hasn't been much 
>innovation since ClickTracks came out several years ago.

What's that?

>These days changes are mostly limited to making sure that the 
>occasional new web browser has their agent string properly parsed.

Hmm... anyone seen iPhone's Safari show up in Analog yet?

As far as Analog development goes, I'd sure like to see the form 
output's HTML raised from HTML 2.0 to 4.0, to use CSS formatting on 
the report.


-W