Employee Web Usage From Proxy Logs

Question

I need to find/create an application that will create employee web usage reports from HTTP proxy logs. Does anyone know of a good product that will do this?

@Joe Liversedge - Good point. I don't have to worry about this, however, as I am the only person in my company with the know-how to pull off an SSH tunnel.

Answer 1

I don't use it, but I hear Splunk is a really good log aggregation and reporting tool. It comes recommended by my sysadmin buddys, I just haven't had a need for it, since we use, IndexTools for our usage stats.

Answer 2

Here's a scenario: What's to stop two employees, let's call them 'Eric' and 'Tim', from running their own little SSH tunnel back home to prevent 'the Man', in this case you, from narc'ing out their use of the Internet. Now you have a useless report.

If you're serious about getting real data, you'll want something close to the pipes.

But agreed, Splunk would work pretty well, as would an over-long and unmaintainable Perl script or a series of awks, sorts, uniq -c's, etc.

Answer 3

or Sensage... which has a more formalized model {more like a normal relational database} of data - at the expense of requiring a little more thought and setup cost to start consuming logs.

I don't think that they offer a free low-volume version like splunk do though.