Best traffic / performance / usage monitoring module?

Question

Are there any open source (or I guess commercial) packages that you can plug into your site for monitoring purposes? I\'d like something that we can hook up to our ASP.NET s

Answer 1

If you're after things like server data, would RRDTool be something you're after? It's not really a webserver type stats program though, I have no idea how it would scale.

Edit:

I've also just found Splunk Swarm, if you're interested in something that looks "cool".

Answer 2

@Ian

Looks like they've raised the limit. Not very surprising, it is google after all ;)

This free version is limited to 5 million pageviews a month - however, users with an active Google AdWords account are given unlimited pageview tracking.

http://www.google.com/support/googleanalytics/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=55543

Answer 3

http://www.serverdensity.com/

Answer 4

One option is to use external monitoring tools, which will monitor the web performance from outside the firewall by simulating end user activities.

Catchpoint Systems has an interesting approach that requires very little coding and gives you the performance stats from outside the datacenter and from inside the asp.net (like processing time, etc)

http://www.catchpoint.com/products.html

Answer 5

Google Analytics is quick to set up and provides more sexy graphs than you can shake a stick at.

http://www.google.com/analytics/

Answer 6

Not Invented here but it's on my todo list to setup. http://awstats.sourceforge.net/