sarg

Sarg, or Squid Analysis Report Generator, is a helpful tool that allows you to keep track of where your users are browsing on the Internet. Sarg provides in-depth information about Squid users' activities, including the time spent, bytes used, and websites visited. Moreover, it is available in multiple languages, including English, Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Dutch, German, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Latvian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Spanish, Turkish, and Ukrainian.

The installation process for Sarg is relatively straightforward. If you use the native Squid log format, the elapsed time will be included in reports (emulate_httpd_log off), and you can proceed with the following steps:

- First, run ./configure
- Configure options include:
- Enabling bindir, where the Sarg binary will be saved (default: /usr/bin)
- Enabling sysconfdir, where the configuration directory is located (default: /usr/local/sarg)
- Enabling htmldir, where the website's HTML root directory is found (default: /var/www/html)
- Enabling mandir, where the Sarg man page will be saved (default: /usr/local/man/man1)
- Next, run make
- After that, run make install
- Then, go to /usr/local/sarg (or the file entered with --sysconfdir on configure) and make the necessary changes to sarg.conf as needed.

One essential thing to note about Sarg is that the date/time report is incremented every minute that a request is logged. This incrementation then adds up to the total time for the requests. You can use the command sarg -h to learn more about Sarg's usage.

In this latest Sarg release, some improvements were made, such as the addition of the fidex -m option to show all the used tags. However, there were also some issues corrected, such as the invalid date period in download reports, wrong results when a user id contains a ' ' character, and the previous reports info being wrong in index.html. Overall, Sarg is a useful tool that can help you keep track of your users' activities online.