Every once in a while, I run across a little-known but very useful tool. Microsoft Log Parser falls squarely into this category. Originally developed to extract information from IIS logs, it has ...

My wife is always quick to reprimand me when I bring home geek speak. She'll say, "You don't interface with people, you talk to them!" Or, "You're not parsing your mail, you're reading your mail!" But ...

When it comes to data mining and multi-dimensional analysis, an advanced and feature complete pivot grid provides business users unrivaled insights into daily operations. Until this release using the ...

My company's webhost uses a terrible log analyzer that doesn't let you view any data that's older than 11 months old (so for instance on March 1, 2009 all the info from March 2009 can no longer be ...

Personally, I would write a parser from scratch, probably in Python or Go, to read each log file entry into a key-value dict. Depending on the quantity of data, I would then either store those dicts ...