S3Stat tracks your cloud usage
One of the downsides of Amazon’s S3 service is that the reporting stats you get back are, to the naked eye, tough to decipher. It’s a spreadsheet full of times and values and bytes. It doesn’t give you a clear idea of performance, trends or popularity of items.
Enter S3Stat.com.
Every night, they will parse your S3 logs and transform them into Apache logs, which can be run through Webalizer and output back to an area on S3 where you can analyze to your heart’s extent. The stats are ongoing, so you can easily go back and check out last month or earlier in the year, which is nice. Here’s a quick screen grab:
S3Stat Screenshot
The one caveat is that you give S3Stat your S3 login and pass. That allows them to grab you logs and post the results back to your S3 account. This is similar to giving your login to RightScale to manage your EC2 resources. S3Stat has done nothing to question my trust in them, so we’ll continue to use the service.
Signing up for the service is easy, and you get a free 30 day trial. After that, the service is miniscule $2 a month. That’s a small price to pay for not having to wade through Amazon’s default stats.
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