I am in the process of evaluating the latest version of Sawmill for use in parsing our Edgecast log files. We want to use Sawmill to parse the logs and pull download reports on our Edgecast-hosted files. However, I’m having some trouble figuring out how to get those statistics out of Sawmill.
The "hits" number is much higher than our downloads are according to reports directly from Edgecast, and "Unique IPs" does not accurately represent downloads.
Has anyone else used this type of setup with success? Does anyone have any ideas / suggestions on how to get a download count out of Sawmill?
1. "RE: Edgecast Logs Data Mining (Evaluation)"
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In general Sawmill will simply process the logs and report the # of hits/page views for the pages/directory accessed, and by what IP. The IP address is the default Sawmill uses to count unique visitors, and as for downloads, I suspect you are looking at a particular file which should be a count of all lines where this particular file was downloaded. I'm not quite sure why you are seeing values that are inconsistent with the values reported by edgecast given the logs are likely the input they are using to generate reports too.
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