User:Pmc/Sawmill (software)

Sawmill

Developer(s)	Flowerfire Inc.
Initial release	1998 (1998)
Stable release	8.1.1 / October 13, 2009 (2009-10-13)
Written in	C
Operating system	Cross-platform
Type	Web analytics, Log analysis
Website	sawmill.net

Sawmill is a software package for the statistical analysis and reporting of log files, with dynamic contextual filtering, 'live' data zooming, user interface customization, and custom calculated reports. Sawmill also incorporates real-time reporting and real-time alerting. Available since 1997 Sawmill provides support for over 850 server log file formats, with new formats added on request. Sawmill also includes a page tagging server and JavaScript page tag for the analysis of client side clicks (client requests) providing a total view of visitor traffic and on-site behavioural activity. Sawmill Analytics is offered in three forms, as a software package for user deployment, as a turnkey on-premise system appliance, and as a SaaS service. Sawmill analyzes any device or software package producing a log file and that includes web servers, firewalls, proxy servers, mail servers, network devices (switches & routers etc.), syslog servers, databases etc. Its range of potential uses by knowledge workers is essentially limitless.

Sawmill was a second runner-up in the 2009 Streaming Media European Readers' Choice Awards.

See also

• Log analysis
• List of web analytics software

External links

• http://www.sawmill.net, for universal web log analysis and reporting.
• http://www.sawmill.co.uk, for universal web log analysis and reporting.
• comparison of analytics software from AWStats documentation
• PC Magazine review of Sawmill 6 from 2001, retrieved 2009-11-27
• Tiscali review of Sawmill 7 from Information Management Magazine, September 1, 2008. Retrieved 2009-12-03.