Why doesn analog agree with grepping the logfile?
Have you understood what analog includes in its counts? In particular, most reports only list “successful” requests (HTTP status codes 200-209 & 304). A naïve grep would count failures too. • Why doesn’t analog agree with my other logfile analysis program? Small differences can be put down to different parsing. But if you are seeing large differences, you have to understand what analog counts, and what the other program counts. For example, some programs count HTTP status codes 301 & 302 as successes, whereas I think that to do so gives extremely misleading results. • Why do I only get “unresolved numerical addresses” in the Domain Report? Your server only records the numerical IP address of the hosts that contact you, not their names. Read the section about DNS lookups, or turn DNS resolution on in your server. • Why are directories listed in the Request Report? They are not directories, they are pages with the same name as the directory. For example, I have both a directory called /a
