A lot of similar tools exist that visualize the log file of a web server in a set of bar and pie charts. However in this interesting two-part article Raju Varghese describes how to visualize web server logs in 3-dimensional, multicolored graphs using GnuPlot and Perl. The graphs are laden with dense information, yet relatively easy to interpret. Read part 1 and part 2 at O'Reilly SysAdmin.
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Visualization of Web Server Logs
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