This is a simple command line tool to analyze request log files in various formats to produce a performance report. Its purpose is to find what actions are best candidates for optimization.

• Analyzes log files. Currently supports: Amazon S3, Apache, Delayed::Job, Merb, Mysql, PostgreSQL, Rack, Rails and more.

• Combines multiple files and decompresses compressed files, which comes in handy if you are using logrotate.

• Uses several metrics, including cumulative request time, mean request time, process blockers, database and rendering time, HTTP methods and statuses, Rails action cache statistics, etc.) (Sample output: github.com/wvanbergen/request-log-analyzer/wiki/sample-output)

• Low memory footprint and reasonably fast, so it is safe to run on a production server.

• MIT licensed

See the project wiki at github.com/wvanbergen/request-log-analyzer/wiki for documentation and additional information.

Install request-log-analyzer as a Ruby gem (you might need to run this command as root by prepending sudo to it):

$ gem install request-log-analyzer

To analyze a Rails log file and produce a performance report, run request-log-analyzer like this:

$ request-log-analyzer log/production.log

For more details, other file formats, and available command line options, see the project’s wiki at github.com/wvanbergen/request-log-analyzer/wiki

$ time ./bin/request-log-analyzer 40MBRailsFile.log

ruby-1.9.2-p180   15.19s user 0.95s system 99% cpu 16.143 total
ree-1.8.7-2011.03 22.81s user 1.28s system 92% cpu 25.938 total
ruby-1.8.7-p334   25.21s user 1.02s system 99% cpu 26.238 total
jruby-1.5.3       32.64s user 4.84s system 99% cpu 37.629 total
rbx-2.0.0pre      39.62s user 2.24s system 104% cpu 40.098 total
macruby           75.00s user 20.10s system 110% cpu 1:26.13 total

Request-log-analyzer was designed and built by Willem van Bergen and Bart ten Brinke.

Do you have a rails application that is not performing as it should? If you need an expert to analyze your application, feel free to contact either Willem van Bergen ([email protected]) or Bart ten Brinke ([email protected]).

• Project wiki at GitHub: github.com/wvanbergen/request-log-analyzer/wiki

• Issue tracker at GitHub: github.com/wvanbergen/request-log-analyzer/issues

• railsdoctors homepage: railsdoctors.com

• wvanbergen’s blog posts: techblog.floorplanner.com/tag/request-log-analyzer