Sawmill (software)

</table> 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, at this time Sawmill provides support for approximately 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 is the OEM reporting engine sold by Blue Coat Systems as a bundled part of their proxy server product. A branded version of it is also sold by Cisco Systems as Sawmill for IronPort.^[1] A branded version of it is also sold by Vicomsoft Ltd as InterGate Intelligence.^[2] A branded version of it is also sold by SonicWALL as "SonicWALL Aventail Advanced Reporting".^[3]

Sawmill was a second runner-up in the 2009 Streaming Media European Readers' Choice Awards.^[4]

Sawmill is listed in the Ideal Observer's Web Analytics Tool Overview ^[5].

See also

• Log analysis
• List of web analytics software

References

1. ↑ Cisco IronPort Web Security Appliance Management contains description of Sawmill for IronPort.
2. ↑ Intergate Intelligence contains a description of InterGate Intelligence, a rebranded version of Sawmill.
3. ↑ SonicWALL Aventail Advanced Reporting contains a description of SonicWALL Aventail Advanced Reporting, a rebranded version of Sawmill.
4. ↑ Streaming Media European Readers' Choice Awards, downloaded 2009-11-23.
5. ↑ Ideal Observer's Web Analytics Tool Overview reviews Sawmill.

External links

• http://www.sawmill.net, 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.