Web Server Monitoring Tools

[devicemanager]

I was wondering if anyone knows a good free tool that allows you to monitor who is visiting your site and that pages and/or downloads are being done?

 

[Kale]

We're using [link:www.mrunix.net/webalizer|webalizer] with our Apache server...

Kale

 

[johnaec]

Are you using IIS? Its standard logging tools will show you the IP of everyone accessing the site, plus the pages/files they viewed.

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[devicemanager]

Yes I am running IIS, does it store a log file somewhere?

 

[devicemanager]

I Found it - thanks a bunch!

 

[devicemanager]

I found WebLog Expert on the net with but it isn't that versatile. It counts my hits and tells some stats like who and their ip and their os and browser - some pretty cool stuff - however I was wondering if anyone knew a tool that works the same but will allow me to see who visited and all the links they clicked.

I noticed that lost of people are trying to run scripts, but have been unsuccessful - but they blow out my log file and they become unreadable. Has this happened to anyone?

Thanks.

 

[a Bill]

They're trying to break your box. Sometimes it's done intentionally (meaning directed towards you personally) while most of the time it's random.

 

[devicemanager]

That's cool - I am locked up pretty tight. But should it make my log file unreadable?

 

[a Bill]

The only files on your webserver that should be readable to the rest of the world are files you want them to see.

 

[Dotcom]

I have been using webalizer for some years and I have no any complaint

 

[budpytko]

Holy Resurrection, BATMAN!!!!

 

[Vistitude]

I was wondering if anyone knows a good free tool that allows you to monitor who is visiting your site and that pages and/or downloads are being done?

I do a lot of this and I reccomend Google analytics and statcounter.com. Both have free versions and rely on javascript.

I run many different campaigns that track visits, clicks, visitor paths etc..

I also manage email campaigns for multiple companies. Through the use of campaigns, goals, link tagging and clever link merging techniques I do not have any compaints at all.

The webalizer reports that I see in bundled with some hosting packages pale in comparison to these tools.

 

[driller]

I use statcounter.com(free version).

We should set up one for our website so administrators could monitor traffic and adjust accordingly.

 

[Vistitude]

Statcounter is pretty good especially for visitor pathing. Google analytics is a lot prettier and I really like the link tagging/campaign segmenting.