GoAccess: Real-Time Web Log Analyzer That Runs in Your Terminal
GoAccess – Open-source real-time log analyzer and interactive viewer
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.
- guessmyname
GoAccess is an awesome tool! If I recall correctly, it was developed as an alternative (Go port) of a popular log analyzer called lnav (https://lnav.org), which is quite popular too: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=lnav.org
- aleks_me2
I've revived AWFFull for static log analysis, just like in the good old webalizer days :-). Link to the report is in my bio, sorry, I can't post links here for now.
What I'm seeing matches the observations of the other commenters here exactly: most of the "users" are bots harvesting pages and PDFs. My solution for getting at the real users is GoatCounter.
- vbernat
It is now mostly unusable for web analytics. So many scrapers are pretending to be browsers. On my site, there is a factor 10 with what I consider an honest view of human visitors.