Sawmill is a log file analysis tool which can injest a huge variety of log file formats and produce reports from them. Recently the company announced that it officially supports the W3C compliant logs files from Flash Media Server, which I believe is the first product to do so.
Flash Media Server logging and reporting has traditionally been a painful task as the initial versions of Flash Communication Server did not support text logs at all. W3C compliance was introduced by FMS 2 and made things a lot simpler, but there was still no easy to use report builder available. Sawmill appears to fill this gap and allows users to access performance statistics and provide usage and service level reports.
Flash Media Server logging and reporting has traditionally been a painful task as the initial versions of Flash Communication Server did not support text logs at all. W3C compliance was introduced by FMS 2 and made things a lot simpler, but there was still no easy to use report builder available. Sawmill appears to fill this gap and allows users to access performance statistics and provide usage and service level reports.
The problem we ran into was that we need custom filters or something to build any type of usable report.
For example, we could see the length of each session, but there was no way to see an average session length without doing the math manually - which is impossible when you're talking about thousands of sessions.
Maybe custom filters are easier than I think they are... but, we've had to push this down on the priority list.
Anyone have any experience creating filters for Sawmill?