[darkice] Re: user Statistics & logging
- From: Niels Dettenbach <nd@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: darkice@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2012 13:23:20 +0100
Am Sonntag, 15. Januar 2012, 13:31:23 schrieb GO DJ HaKa:
> anyone with experience with awstats?
Yes,
we use awstats AND webalizer AND cacti (RRDTool).
Why:
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Awstats and webalizer was developed for typical web server traffic, but not
streaming traffic, even if it can read icecast logfiles (as they are
"compatible" by format to other web logging formats) - so it did not offer us
the most important details we want to know:
- the number of current / concurrent listeners on each stream or at all
We use awstats with GeoIP mainly to get a "geographical view" of where our
listeners come from and some tech details about the interaction with our
icecasts (i.e. what kind of user agents they use), but nothing more "really
useful" as requests hits or visits could not be counted as is or interpreted
without important limitations on radio streams.
We use webalizer in parallel because awstats uses another set of algos to
calculate "visitors" then i.e. webalizer - so the results differ up to *3.
Most important thing our radio makers and heads want to know is how many
listeners are in the audience currently or at any time in the past. Therefor i
just found commercial solutions, but want a open source one.
For this i've modified a set of small php scripts (icecast for cacti - found
it somewhere in a forum but required some works to get running for me) which
feeds CACTI (an RRDTool web frontend - as we use it for many other graphing
jobs too and it has a nice GUI for end users and a smartphone app client
version etc.) which produces graphes in many different time ranges (from i.e.
the last hour up to several year or longer).
See example screens here:
http://www.syndicat.com/pub/darkice/mon/cacti/demo/cacti_main.png
http://www.syndicat.com/pub/darkice/mon/cacti/demo/cacti_details1.png
but the scripts may could used for other implementations too.
hth
cheers,
Niels.
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Niels Dettenbach
Syndicat IT&Internet
http://www.syndicat.com/
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