Control your logfiles

syslog and syslog-ng

• logging via tcp and udp
• support for stunnel

Syslog analyzers

• logwatch
• swatch (opensource)
• prelude (opensource)
• Splunk (commercial)
• kiwi enterprises (commercial)
• logmucher (shellscript, standardtools, several notification options)
• fwlogwatch

Weblog analyzers

• awstats
• SAWstats
• Google Analytics (cloud)
• w3perl
• analog
• The Big Brother Log Analyzer (BBLA)
• relax log analyzer
• webalizer

Proxylog analyzers

• Calamaris
• Squij
• pwebstats

Best Practices

• sync time via ntp