AwStats vs Splunk

August 10, 2025 | Author: Sandeep Sharma
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AwStats
AwStats
AWStats is a free powerful tool that generates advanced web, streaming, ftp or mail server statistics, graphically. This log analyzer works as a CGI or from command line and shows you all possible information your log contains, in few graphical web pages. Provides detailed statistics on visitor behavior, including page views, unique visitors, and referring sites.
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Splunk
Splunk
We make machine data accessible, usable and valuable to everyone—no matter where it comes from. You see servers and devices, apps and logs, traffic and clouds. We see data—everywhere. Splunk offers the leading platform for Operational Intelligence. It enables the curious to look closely at what others ignore—machine data—and find what others never see: insights that can help make your company more productive, profitable, competitive and secure.
AWStats and Splunk are both Analytics software products used to analyze logs. They enable data visualization in the form of graphs and tables, allow to filter and search through logs, can work with real-time data, support integration with external systems, provide web interface for viewing reports.

But AWStats (launched in 2000) is a French web analytics system - free and open source (GPL). It usually works with web server logs. It's easy to install and configure, does not require powerful server resources, runs on Perl and generates HTML reports.

Splunk (2003) is an American commercial software (with a limited free tire). It is mainly used to analyze IT infrastructure logs to ensure its reliable operation and security. This is more complicated system with advanced search capabilities and event correlation. It can scale to process large volumes of data.

See also: Top 10 Web Analytics software
Author: Sandeep Sharma
Sandeep is a marketing expert with a wealth of knowledge in various domains: customer relationship management, social media management, advertising, search engine optimization, website building, Sandeep has established himself as a multifaceted professional. He honed his skills while working at Salesforce and Hubspot, where he gained invaluable insights into the industry. Now, as the proud owner of a small advertising consulting agency, Sandeep continues to provide innovative and effective strategies to businesses, helping them thrive in the competitive landscape of digital marketing. You can contact Sandeep via email sandeep@liventerprise.com