Free-SA is tool for statistical analysis of daemons' log files, similar to SARG. Its main advantages over SARG are much better speed (7x-20x), more support for reports, and W3C compliance of generated HTML/CSS reports. It can be used to help control traffic usage, to control Internet access security policies, to investigate security incidents, to evaluate server efficiency, and to detect troubles with configuration.
| Tags | Internet Log Analysis |
|---|---|
| Licenses | GPLv3 |
| Operating Systems | POSIX Unix Linux Windows via Cygwin |
| Implementation | C HTML CSS JavaScript |
| Translations | Slovak Italian English French German Russian Czech Estonian Belarussian Spanish Hungarian |
Recent releases


Release Notes: Support for Postfix over syslog log format was improved. Support for different operating systems was improved as well, especially for CentOS and RedHat Linux. Most bugs and strange behaviors discovered by Coverity Scan service and reported by users were fixed.


Release Notes: The long awaited option implementing calendar navigation menu at the main index page has been added. The program will also clear the cache directory in the case where no records were found and exit with a good return code.


Release Notes: Multiple new options for many customizable SVG graphics reports were added. New options 'users_excess' and 'users_excess_limit' were added for generating a plain text report file with users exceeding the specified limit. W3C standards conformance has been defined more precisely, and includes the standard's version number.


Release Notes: Support for conversion of usernames in the top sites report has been added. Portuguese and Lithuanian translations were added. Some problems were fixed and some new options were introduced.


Release Notes: Hungarian localization as well as better support for Ubuntu, NetBSD, Solaris, and OpenSuSE has been added. Free-SA now works in a more correct way with FIFO files used as a log source. A new option 'server_efficiency_bytes_divisor' for enabling the bytes divisor in the server efficiency report has been added. Many warnings and typos were fixed, and some security improvements were introduced.