GoAccess is a real-time web log analyzer and interactive viewer that runs in a terminal in *nix systems or through your browser. Its main idea idea is to quickly analyze and view web server statistics in real time without needing to use a web browser.
It provides fast and valuable HTTP statistics for system administrators that require a visual server report on the fly.
GoAccess is free and open source software.
Features include:
- Fast, real-time, millisecond/second updates. All panels and metrics are timed to be updated every 200 ms on the terminal output and every second on the HTML output.
- Nearly all web log formats with support for any custom log format string. Predefined options include:
- Amazon CloudFront (Download Distribution).
- Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3).
- AWS Elastic Load Balancing.
- Combined Log Format (XLF/ELF) Apache | Nginx.
- Common Log Format (CLF) Apache.
- Google Cloud Storage.
- Apache virtual hosts.
- Squid Native Format.
- W3C format (IIS).
- Simply set the log format and run it against your log.
- Incremental log processing.
- Determine the amount of hits, visitors, bandwidth, and metrics for slowest running requests by the hour, or date.
- Metrics per virtual host.
- Track application response time.
- Beautiful terminal and bootstrap dashboards (Tailor GoAccess to suit your own color taste/schemes).
- Parse large logs due to its optimized in-memory hash tables. It has very good memory usage and pretty good performance. This storage has support for on-disk persistence as well.
- Color scheme customizable.
- Docker support.
- Minimal configuration needed.
- Only ncurses as a dependency. It even features its own RFC6455 compliant Web Socket server.
- Generate reports in HTML, JSON and CSV format.
- Valgrind tested.
Website: goaccess.io
Support: GitHub Code Repository
Developer: Gerardo O.
License: MIT License
GoAccess is written in C. Learn C with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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