Re: Monitoring web traffic

Jobst Schmalenbach <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.org.user-groups.slug.chat
Organization Barrett Consulting Group Pty Ltd
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On Thu, May 01, 2008 at 09:48:07AM +0800, Andre Kolodochka ([email protected]) wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'd like to start monitoring our company's web traffic. We have certain download limit, which was exceeded by quite a lot last month and I need to know whether the traffic goes to Facebook/etc or legitimate websites related to our business. At this stage I don't really need to know who visited what website. I am more after the data which will tell me what website/files took how much traffic from our quota each day.
> 
> What would be the best way to approach this task and with what tools?

I would user with mrtg together with mrtg_total.pl (together with Jeff's suggestion for squid).

MRTG produces some nice graphs, e.g. every day you have the daily usage (the day after) 
so you can see how you are going.

Squid can be used in conjunction with "calamaris" which is a squid log file analyser.
It can very quickly tell you who downlaoded the most ...

Jobst



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> Andre
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