If you are a server administrator of a company then you must pay attention to the working status and performance of your server. The easy and direct way is to analyze the server log files. But the contents of these log files are usually very huge and unorderly. It is impossible to sort and analyze these log files by hand? How do we collect and analyze these informations easily and quickly? Take it easy! The server log analyzer is an ideal solution for just for you! Here are some powerful yet easy to use server log analyzing utilities I will show you. They are: 10 Strike Log Analyzer, SurfStats, Servoyant and Active LogView. Following are the general introductions of these server log analyzers. Pick out a suited server log analyzer and make your job easy now!

10 Strike Log Analyzer is a server log analysis program. It processes NCSA common and extended log files and generates several types of reports and histograms (such as referrers, files requested, redirected requests and other). We can easily determine the most popular files, referrers, visitor countries, and other statistics, and also set several filters to limit the analysis.

SurfStats is a comprehensive log analysis program, that retrieves log files from the host server (or local disk), uncompresses them if required and then generates, displays and prints HTML or MS Word based activity reports from it. It offers summary and detail reporting modes of more than 30 reports, dynamic DNS lookup, filtering, report scheduling and more. The report theme manager allows us to change logos, backgrounds, fonts and colors for the generated reports. Additional features include an integrated raw log file viewer, searching and printing of log files. SurfStats supports most common log file formats.

Servoyant (formerly iView Security Analytics) is a log analyzer for NetScreen, Cisco PIX, Sonicwall, and Fortinet firewalls. It analyzes the firewall traffic log and provides detailed, easy to read reports. The program uses highly optimized algorithms to process and interpret the raw log information. Servoyant is designed to run on a single location and firewall.

Active LogView is a server log analysis program that runs as a CGI program on the server (.exe) and provides analysis of total requests, unique visits, advanced referrers list, hourly summary and more. It uses a simple HTML interface and processes the log files at about 100mb per minute.

Overall, 10 Strike Log Analyzer processes NCSA common and extended log files and generates several types of reports and histograms. SurfStats offers summary and detail reporting modes of more than 30 reports, dynamic DNS lookup, filtering, report scheduling and more. Servoyant is designed to run on a single location and firewall. It analyzes the firewall traffic log and provides detailed, easy to read reports. Active LogView uses a simple HTML interface and processes the log files at about 100mb per minute.

As we all know the server log analysis and report is not a easy job even for experienced users. Want to make this job simple and effective? Download your favorite server log analyzer and try it now!