Why doesn analog analyse the error_log?
The error log is intended for humans rather than computers to read. So there is no consistent format: even different versions of the same server have different formats. And there is not much need to analyse it because analog’s various failure reports are good enough for almost all purposes. • My server lists local names in the logfile. Can you put a common suffix on them automatically? This wouldn’t be a good idea by default, because things like “unknown” would get the suffix. You can always add them using HOSTALIAS. (There is an example to accomplish this using regular expressions in the section about aliases.) • Can you extrapolate from the current month’s partial data to produce a prediction for the whole month, based on the rate so far? No. There are too many problems in trying to produce anything sensible, especially near the beginning of the month. Different days of the week and different times of day cause lots of problems. I would prefer to produce accurate raw data than suspec
