Basic usage

Usage: request-log-analyzer [LOGFILES*] <OPTIONS>

If you want to analyze a rails production log, use the following syntax:

  request-log-analyzer production.log

This will generate a report, similar to our [sample-ourput](http://wiki.github.com/wvanbergen/request-log-analyzer/sample-output)

If you want analyze multiple files (because of logrotate or multiple mongrel log files), do this:

  request-log-analyzer mongrel.0.log mongrel.1.log mongrel.2.log 

   OR

  request-log-analyzer mongrel*.log

Input options

  --format <format>, -f      Uses the specified log file format. Defaults to rails.
  --after <date>             Only consider requests from <date> or later.
  --before <date>            Only consider requests before <date>.
  --select <field> <value>   Only consider requests where <field> matches <value>.
  --reject <field> <value>   Only consider requests where <field> does not match <value>.

Format currently only accepts rails or merb.

After and before accept any date that is parsed by the Ruby Date.parse(string) function.

Select and Reject have the same syntax and acccept the following flags:

  FIELD_NAME    EXAMPLE_VALUE

  controller    RssController

  action        show

  format        rss

  ip            192.168.1.1

  method        GET

Output options

  --boring, -b               Output reports without ASCII colors."
  --database <filename>, -d: Creates an SQLite3 database of all the parsed request information."
  --debug                    Print debug information while parsing."
  --file <filename>          Output to file."

If you want rla to gather all the requests from a log file and store the complete requests into an sqlite database.

  request-log-analyzer -d requests.db production.log

This comes in handy when you manually want to do extensive down drilling on the requests in your log file.

If you want your report to write to a file, instead of your terminal, use the --file option.

  request-log-analyzer production.log —file report.txt

Note that files do not include ASCII coloring.