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To import log files you start a five-step Import Wizard from the Log Ananlyzer tab.
- At the first step, you need to select the profile that corresponds to the format of your log file. If you do not want to specify the logfile format or you are not sure about it, you may select Autodetect from the list of available profiles.
The list contains 3 standard profiles: Apache 2.0 standard, Zeus 1.0, and W3C Extended Log Format, and as an alternative - Autodetect. If you select Autodetect, the program will try to locate the fields with key data in the log file records automatically. Autodetect works only for logs in Combined Log Format or W3C Extended Log Format.
You may switch to the Log Profile Manager, if necessary (e.g., there is no log type that you need or you want to adjust an existing format). After you have selected the profile, click  Next.
- After you select the profile and press Next , you'll be taken to the next step, where you will pick the import source. This may be a local file or a file on the remote FTP server.
In case of the latter you will have to enter your FTP server address and connection parameters. If you have entered these settings before and saved them as default ones, you'll be able to load them instantly. When you are done, press Next to proceed to the next step.
- At this step you will select log files to be imported. Naturally, all of them must be of the same format . There is a list of last 10 imported log files (this list is project-specific). You may move them to the list above for import by double-clicking them. The
 Browse button opens the file selection window. Log files may be saved in the form of ordinary text files, .gz archives (packed text log), or .tar.gz archives (several log files packed together). Also, you may enabe Files by mask option - in this case the program will find ll log files, corresponding to the mask and add them to the list.
- The fourth step (Autodetect profile) is activated only if you have selected Autodetect at Step 1. Otherwise this step is skipped. One string from the log file is displayed at the top of the window. You may change the current string using Previous Line and Next Line buttons. The autodetect is performed automatically when you change the current line. When autodetect is completed successfully, there are two variants possible: if the log file was saved in W3C format, you'll receive a message stating so. If it is Combined Log Format, the information detected would be displayed in the fields at the bottom.
If all is well, press  Correct to proceed to the final stage of import. If the results are not satisfactory, that means that Autodetect is unable to locate the fields properly and you need to specify the exact profile.
- At the final step you can specify the parameters of data to be saved into the log database of the current project.
If Clear log database before import option is selected, project data created during previous analysis sessions will be cleared. If you select Import only new files, then files which have been previously imported to the project will be skipped this time (recommended). If you select Delete files after import, your imported log files, (local or FTP) will be deleted.
After you press the  Finish button, the import of log files will be started according to the parameters you have specified. You can abort the process by pressing the Stop button in the progress window. In this case you will be able to work with information that has been loaded up till that time.
After the import is finished, the spider visits table will be built in the Log Analyzer tab.
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