Best analytics/log parser for an webservice that are being only consumped by smartphone apps

Question

I have very simple REST based webservice that is running on LEMP. I want to get analytics data out of this. Since these are plain xmls being consumed by different smartphone apps - Javascript or any client based analytics are out (e.g. google analytics etc..) .

Based on my limited knowledge, my understanding is I have to resort to server side logsparser based analytics like Awstats, analog etc.. My primary purpose is to very simple, number of call for each webservice and time based mapping to determine peaks and source clients etc..

Can folks give recommendation on which analytics solution is best suited for my purpose ? thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Here are a couple I've used, splunk is my favorite but also costs money once you exceed 500MB/day of logs:

• Splunk http://www.splunk.com
• Graylog http://graylog2.org/