Analog Helper is a graphical configuration tool for Analog 3, which is a free program to analyse the logfiles from your web server. Analog Helper lets you control and preview the results of hundreds of settings, and means you need not touch the complex syntax of Analog's configuration files.
Analog itself was written by Stephen Turner and ported to Mac by Jason T. Linhart. It tells you which pages are most popular, which countries people are visiting from, which sites they tried to follow broken links from, etc... It is the fastest and most flexible such tool available.
Analog Helper works by letting you set up your web log analysis in an intuitive way. When you are ready to perform the analysis, it writes out the analog.cfg file, runs Analog, then opens the results in your web browser. However, you need not be aware of any of this process; simply set up your analysis as required in Analog Helper, and it will do the rest of the work.
Analog Helper can also import your old .cfg configuration files so that you have an easier way to adjust configurations you have already set up. There are also certain things that you can so with Analog Helper that cannot be done with Analog alone :
• Maintain multiple configurations in separate files.
• Automatically split an analysis into separate daily, weekly, monthly, or annual reports.
• Filter log files to analyse based on file modification date.
Analog Helper contains context-sensitive help for all of the available options, which can be toggled from the Help menu. If you do not know what a configuration option does, move the mouse over it and a description with examples will appear below. For highly detailed help on Analog's functionality, you may want to consult the documentation which comes with the Analog download.
We hope you find Analog Helper useful. If there are any queries, comments or suggestions, please contact us at support@sigsoftware.com.
