Sawmill Pro

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Flowerfire

Sawmill is a powerful, hierarchical log analysis tool. It is particularly well suited to web server access and referrer logs, but can process almost any log. The reports that Sawmill 4.0 generates are hierarchical, attractive, and heavily crosslinked for easy navigation. Complete documentation is built directly into the program.

Sawmill presents an intuitive user interface, which leads you through every step of browsing your log file's statistics. Using an interview format, it asks questions when it needs information, so you only have to deal with the configuration options which are relevant to the task at hand. Stats pages are full of links to related information, organized intuitively so you can get to the information you want with a minimal number of clicks. A powerful hierarchical optimization feature automatically reorganizes the hierarchy to increase the amount of useful information on each page.

Sawmill statistics are hierarchical, rather than report-based. They are a collection of interlinked pages which allow rapid navigation of the entire multidimensional hierarchical statistics space. They are attractively formatted in HTML for easy exploration with any web browser, and they include pie charts, bar charts, and line graphs to help graphically interpret the statistics.

Sawmill Pro is the high-end version of Sawmill, with all features fully active, including support for disk-based databases. The Pro version allows you to incrementally update the database as new log data is available.