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GoAccess (A Real-Time Apache and Nginx) Web Server Log Analyzer

By Ravi Saive Under: Apache, Monitoring Tools, Nginx On: March 7, 2013
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GoAccess is an interactive and real time web server log analyzer program that quickly analyze and view web server logs. It comes as an open source and runs as a command line in Unix/Linux operating systems. It provides brief and beneficial HTTP (web server) statistics report for Linux administrators on the fly. It also take care of both the Apache and Ngnix web server log formats. GoAccess parses and analyze the given web server log formats such CLF (Common Log Format), W3C format (IIS) and Apache virtual hosts and then generate output of the data to the terminal. It includes the following features.
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How Do I Install GoAccess?

Presently, GoAccess is not available from yum repositories, so we need to manually download and compile it using source code under redhat based systems.
On RHEL/Centos/Fedora
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GoAccess utility is available since Debian Squeeze 6. To install just run the following command on the terminal.
#a p t g e ti n s t a l lg o a c c e s s

For older Debian releases, you can be able to install it by adding a line to your /etc/apt/sources.list file as shown below.
#v i m/ e t c / a p t / s o u r c e s . l i s t #d e bh t t p : / / f t p . d e . d e b i a n . o r g / d e b i a ns i dm a i n #a p t g e tu p d a t e #a p t g e ti n s t a l lg o a c c e s s On Ubuntu

Since Ubuntu 11.04 it is available from the apt-get repositories. So, you can simple type the following command on the terminal to install it.
#a p t g e ti n s t a l lg o a c c e s s

For older Ubuntu releases, simple add the following line to your /etc/apt/sources.list file and then run the commands to install it as shown below.
#v i m/ e t c / a p t / s o u r c e s . l i s t #d e bh t t p : / / u b u n t u . m i r r o r . c a m b r i u m . n l / u b u n t u /n a t t ym a i nu n i v e r s e #a p t g e tu p d a t e #a p t g e ti n s t a l lg o a c c e s s

How Do I Use GoAccess?

Once, goaccess is installed, execute goaccess command without any arguments will list the help menu.
#g o a c c e s s
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The easiest way to get the any web server statistics use the flag f with input log file name as shown below. The below command will give you general statistics of your web server logs.
#g o a c c e s sf/ v a r / l o g / h t t p d / t e c m i n t . c o m #g o a c c e s sf/ v a r / l o g / n g i n x / t e c m i n t . c o m

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GoAccess Web Log Analyzer For more information and usage please visit http://goaccess.prosoftcorp.com/.
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nobicycle says: March 12, 2013 at 9:45 am Interesting, but the terminal I use captures F10, which prevents specifying the log format. Log format cannot be specified on the command line either. Reply

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James says: March 12, 2013 at 9:55 pm I had the same issue, however, I configured my log format/date in my: ~/.goaccessrc color_scheme 1 date_format %d/%b/%Y log_format %h %^[%d:%^] %^ %r %s %b %R %u

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Reply 3. Lance says: July 15, 2013 at 9:11 am This is works awesome on my nginx server. Version 0.6 just came out which fixed the F10 key in gnome term. Reply

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