GoAccess: Real-Time Web Log Analyzer That Runs in Your Terminal

GoAccess – Open-source real-time log analyzer and interactive viewer

GoAccess: Real-Time Web Log Analyzer That Runs in Your Terminal

GoAccess is a fast, terminal-based log analyzer that provides real-time web server statistics without needing a browser. It supports nearly all log formats, including Apache, Nginx, Amazon S3, and CloudFront. Beyond analytics, it's a practical security tool for spotting suspicious activity, brute-force attempts, and bots. It can generate real-time HTML, JSON, and CSV reports, and is written in C with only ncurses as a dependency.

GoAccess was designed to be a fast, terminal-based log analyzer.

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2026-08-13