How to view Amazon S3 server log with CloudBerry S3 Explorer

Note: this post applies to CloudBerry Explorer 1.5.1 and later.

In our previous post we talked about how to enable Amazon S3 server log. In this post we will show you some of the cool CloudBerry Explorer features that allow you to view Amazon S3 server log in a human readable form.

How to generate a report

To generate a report simply right click the bucket and choose View Server Access Log from the context menu. This option will be available if you have enabled the log for the bucket previously. You can click to the Logging Setting to enable the server log.

What reports are available

Reports are available in a tabular form and a chart form. Reports are not available instantly. When log files are loaded and a report is generated you will experience a delay that depends on the volume of your log files and see a progress.

There are two charts available:

1. the total number of requests per day

2. the total traffic per day (shown on the screen)

Conclusion

CloudBerry Explorer provides you only with basic means with several built-in reports for analyzing your S3 server log. If you want to have more advanced and more flexible log analysis I suggest that you look for other tools such as SiSense Prism Viewer with Amazon S3 Dashboard . Check out our full review of this product here.

You can also check out an online service called S3Stat that generate reports from your log files using Webalizer and delivers them to your S3 bucket. These guys have also recently added CloudFront log support. Check out their latest blog post on the subject Code on the Road: Cloudfront Analytics from S3stat

If you came to this post by chance you should know that CloudBerry S3 Explorer is a Windows freeware product that you can download at http://cloudberrylab.com/