Sawmill is a Helix Universal Server (Style 5) log analyzer (it also supports the 843 other log formats listed to the left). It can process log files in Helix Universal Server (Style 5) format, and generate dynamic statistics from them, analyzing and reporting events. Sawmill can parse Helix Universal Server (Style 5) logs, import them into a MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, or Oracle database (or its own built-in database), aggregate them, and generate dynamically filtered reports, all through a web interface. Sawmill can perform Helix Universal Server (Style 5) log analysis on any platform, including Window, Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Mac OS, Solaris, other UNIX, and others.
Sawmill stores the following non-numerical fields in its database for Helix Universal Server (Style 5), generates reports for each field, and allows dynamic filtering on any combination of these fields:
| Field | Internal Name | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| date/time | date_time | ||
| day of week | day_of_week | ||
| hour of day | hour_of_day | ||
| file | file | ||
| file type | file_type | ||
| hostname | hostname | ||
| domain description | domain_description | ||
| geographic location | location | ||
| protocol | protocol | ||
| server response | server_response | ||
| client info | client_info | ||
| version | version | ||
| client | client | ||
| type | type | ||
| distribution | distribution | ||
| language | language | ||
| client ID | client_id | ||
| transport | transport | ||
| startup | startup | ||
| stream number | stream_number | ||
| mime type | mime_type | ||
| codec | codec | ||
| transport protocol | transport_protocol | ||
| turboplay | turboplay | ||
| clip end | clip_end | ||
| presentation id | presentation_id |
Sawmill stores the following numerical fields in its database for Helix Universal Server (Style 5), aggregating them and including them as columns in most reports:
| Numerical Field | Internal Name | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| clips | clips | ||
| visitors | visitors | ||
| bytes sent | bytes_sent | ||
| file size | file_size | ||
| file time | file_time | ||
| sent time | sent_time | ||
| resends | resends | ||
| failed resends | failed_resends | ||
| received | received | ||
| out of order | out_of_order | ||
| missing | missing | ||
| early | early | ||
| late | late | ||
| bandwidth | bandwidth | ||
| available | available | ||
| highest | highest | ||
| lowest | lowest | ||
| average | average | ||
| requested | requested | ||
| rebuffering | rebuffering | ||
| resent | resent | ||
| lost | lost | ||
| average bandwidth | average_bandwidth | ||
| current bandwidth | current_bandwidth | ||
| duration | duration |
See Sawmill Features to learn more about Sawmill's options for viewing, customizing, filtering, exporting and scheduling Helix Universal Server (Style 5) reports.
Sawmill also supports 843 other log formats.