Sawmill For Linux

Sawmill is a commercial, platform-independent, powerful, useful and web-based application that provides a hierarchical log analysis tool, which can be used for analyzing web server logs, as well as any other log.

Key features include report drill down, clickstream web visitor reports, user management editor for report and admin user access, geographic location reports via GeoLite City, integrated database, 677 supported log file formats, single log source, single and 5 profile license packs, and support for multiple languages.

It provides users with six different types of analytics, including Web analytics, security analytics, email analytics, proxy analytics, media analytics and syslog analytics. Each one allowing the user to get detailed and accurate metrics.

For example, with the Web Analytics component, you will be able to get reliable and accurate web metrics by analysing the log files of your web server, giving your entire organisation great flexibility.

The Security Analytics component ensures that your anti-virus server, VPN server, firewall, file server and authentication server are all monitored, analyzed and reported thoroughly.

Whether your e-mail server is abused or not, the Email Analytics component of Sawmill will monitor its log files non-stop, sending you regular reports on-demand or scheduled at a specific date.

Lastly, the Proxy Analytics component helps you to monitor everything your employees do on the Internet and understand on what websites they are spending their time, and the Media Analytics component lets you to easily manage your time to download and QoS (Quality of Service).

After the analyzation process, Sawmill will generate hierarchical, heavily cross-linked (for easy navigation) and attractive reports. The project has been tested with many modern web browsers, including Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, Opera, and Safari.

It currently supports around 1,000 log file formats and it’s compatible with any operating system where the aforementioned web browsers are available, including GNU/Linux, Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X.