GoAccess is an open source real-time web log analyzer and interactive viewer that *runs in a terminal in nix systems. It provides fast and valuable HTTP statistics for system administrators that require a visual server report on the fly. More info at: http://goaccess.io.
GoAccess parses the specified web log file and outputs the data to the X terminal. Features include:
- General Statistics, bandwidth, etc.
- Time taken to serve the request (useful to track pages that are slowing down your site)
- Top Visitors
- Requested files
- Requested static files, images, swf, js, etc.
- 404 or Not Found
- Hosts, Reverse DNS, IP Location
- Operating Systems
- Browsers and Spiders
- Referring Sites
- Referrers URLs
- Keyphrases
- Geo Location - Continent/Country/City
- HTTP Status Codes
- Ability to output JSON and CSV
- Different Color Schemes
- Support for large datasets and data persistence
- Support for IPv6
- Output statistics to HTML. See report.
GoAccess allows any custom log format string. Predefined options include, but not limited to:
- Amazon CloudFront (Download Distribution).
- Apache virtual hosts
- Combined Log Format (XLF/ELF) Apache | Nginx
- Common Log Format (CLF) Apache
- W3C format (IIS).
The main idea behind GoAccess is being able to quickly analyze and view web
server statistics in real time without having to generate an HTML report.
Although it is possible to generate an HTML, JSON, CSV report, by default
it outputs to a terminal.
You can see it more as a monitor command tool than anything else.
GoAccess can be compiled and used on Linux, OSX, OpenBSD, NetBSD, FreeBSD.
Download, extract and compile GoAccess with:
$ wget http://tar.goaccess.io/goaccess-0.8.5.tar.gz
$ tar -xzvf goaccess-0.8.5.tar.gz
$ cd goaccess-0.8.5/
$ ./configure --enable-geoip --enable-utf8
$ make
# make install
$ git clone https://github.com/allinurl/goaccess.git
$ cd goaccess
$ autoreconf -fiv
$ ./configure --enable-geoip --enable-utf8
$ make
# make install
It is easiest to install GoAccess on Linux using the preferred package manager of your Linux distribution.
Please note that not all distributions will have the lastest version of GoAccess available
# apt-get install goaccess
NOTE: this might not always give you the latest stable version. To make sure that you're running the latest stable version of GoAccess see alternative option below.
$ echo "deb http://deb.goaccess.io $(lsb_release -cs) main" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list
$ wget -O - http://deb.goaccess.io/gnugpg.key | sudo apt-key add -
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install goaccess
Important If APT complains about the public key not being available, "signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available", please re-download the key.
# yum install goaccess
# pacman -S goaccess
# emerge net-analyzer/goaccess
# brew install goaccess
# cd /usr/ports/sysutils/goaccess/ && make install clean
$ pkg_add -r goaccess
# pkgin install goaccess
GoAccess can be used in Windows through Cygwin.
The following options can also be supplied to the command or specified in the configuration file:
| Command Line Option | Description |
|---|---|
-a --agent-list |
Enable a list of user-agents by host. |
-c --config-dialog |
Prompt log/date configuration window. |
-d --with-output-resolver |
Enable IP resolver on HTML |
-e --exclude-ip=<IP> |
Exclude one or multiple IPv4/v6 including IP ranges. |
-f --log-file=<filename> |
Path to input log file. |
-g --std-geoip |
Standard GeoIP database for less memory usage. |
-h --help |
This help. |
-H --http-protocol |
Include HTTP request protocol if found. |
-M --http-method |
Include HTTP request method if found. |
-m --with-mouse |
Enable mouse support on main dashboard. |
-o --output-format=csv,json |
Output format: -o csv for CSV. -o json for JSON. |
-p --config-file=<filename> |
Custom configuration file. |
-q --no-query-string |
Remove request's query string. Can greatly reduce mem usage. |
-r --no-term-resolver |
Disable IP resolver on terminal output. |
-s --storage |
Display current storage method. i.e., B+ Tree, Hash. |
-V --version |
Display version information and exit. |
--444-as-404 |
Treat non-standard status code 444 as 404. |
--4xx-to-unique-count |
Add 4xx client errors to the unique visitors count. |
--color-scheme=<1,2> |
Color schemes: 1 => Default grey, 2 => Green. |
--date-format=<dateformat> |
Specify log date format. |
--double-decode |
Decode double-encoded values. |
--geoip-database=<path> |
Specify path to GeoIP database v4/v6. i.e., GeoLiteCity.dat |
--ignore-crawlers |
Ignore crawlers. |
--ignore-referer=<referer> |
Ignore referers from being counted. Wildcards allowed. |
--log-format="<logformat>" |
Specify log format. Inner quotes need to be escaped. |
--no-color |
Disable colored output. |
--no-global-config |
Do not load the global configuration file. |
--no-progress |
Disable progress metrics. |
--real-os |
Display real OS names. e.g, Windows XP, Snow Leopard. |
--sort-panel=<PANEL,METRIC,ORDER> |
Sort panel on initial load. See manpage for metrics. |
--static-file=<extension> |
Add static file extension. e.g.: .mp3, Case sensitive. |
--cache-lcnum=<number> |
Max number of leaf nodes to be cached. [1024] |
--cache-ncnum=<number> |
Max number of non-leaf nodes to be cached. [512] |
--compression=<zlib,bz2> |
Specify that each page is compressed with ZLIB |
--db-path=<path> |
Path of the database file. [/tmp/] |
--tune-bnum=<number> |
Number of elements of the bucket array. [32749] |
--tune-lmemb=<number> |
Number of members in each leaf page. [128] |
--tune-nmemb=<number> |
Number of members in each non-leaf page. [256] |
--xmmap=<number> |
Set the size in bytes of the extra mapped memory. [0] |
The simplest and fastest usage would be:
# goaccess -f access.log
That will generate an interactive text-only output.
To generate full statistics we can run GoAccess as:
# goaccess -f access.log -a
To generate an HTML report:
# goaccess -f access.log -a > report.html
To generate a JSON file:
# goaccess -f access.log -a -d -o json > report.json
To generate a CSV file:
# goaccess -f access.log -o csv > report.csv
The -a flag indicates that we want to process an agent-list for every host
parsed.
The -d flag indicates that we want to enable the IP resolver on the HTML |
JSON output. (It will take longer time to output since it has to resolve all
queries.)
The -c flag will prompt the date and log format configuration window. Only
when curses is initialized.
Now if we want to add more flexibility to GoAccess, we can do a series of pipes. For instance:
If we would like to process all access.log.*.gz we can do:
# zcat access.log.*.gz | goaccess
OR
# zcat -f access.log* | goaccess
Another useful pipe would be filtering dates out of the web log
The following will get all HTTP requests starting on 05/Dec/2010 until the end of the file.
# sed -n '/05\/Dec\/2010/,$ p' access.log | goaccess -a
To exclude a list of virtual hosts you can do the following:
# grep -v "`cat exclude_vhost_list_file`" vhost_access.log | goaccess
For more examples, please check GoAccess' man page: http://goaccess.io/man
Any help on GoAccess is welcome. The most helpful way is to try it out and give feedback. Feel free to use the Github issue tracker and pull requests to discuss and submit code changes.
Enjoy!