GoAccess is an open-source, real-time log analyzer and interactive viewer for web server logs. It runs in terminals on UNIX-like systems and can generate standalone HTML, JSON, or CSV reports for browser-based analysis. GoAccess offers enhanced WebSocket authentication, supporting local and external JWT verification, with secure token refresh capabilities and seamless integration with external authentication systems. GoAccess allows any custom log format string. Predefined options include, Apache, Nginx, Amazon S3, Elastic Load Balancing, CloudFront, etc. Determine the amount of hits, visitors, bandwidth, and metrics for slowest running requests by the hour, or date.

Features

  • Real-time millisecond/second updates in terminal (written in C)
  • Interactive, beautiful terminal dashboard with customizable color schemes
  • Generates self-contained HTML, JSON, and CSV reports for visual analytics
  • Supports many log formats (Apache, Nginx, CloudFront, Amazon S3, etc.)
  • Lightweight with minimal dependencies (only requires ncurses)
  • Valgrind-tested for memory safety and performance trustworthiness

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Log Analysis

License

MIT License

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  • las786 Posted 2017-07-27
    MOVED: github.com/allinurl/goaccess
  • a329692195 Posted 2014-04-23
    Great! Keep going.
  • allinmadison Posted 2013-06-11
    Goaccess is great! Thanks.
    1 user found this review helpful.
  • oid-3684587 Posted 2012-01-03
    This is outstanding application, i have been using it since its alpha release. This app can be use to detect bad crawlers, web abuser and plenty of other run time on the fly analysis, this http://www.hackersgarage.com/goaccess-on-rhelcentos-6-linux-real-time-apache-log-analyzer.html may help for installing it on rhel/centos 6.
  • inurl Posted 2010-07-08
    Definitely useful when it comes to analyze web server statistics interactively and without having to generate huge reports.
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Operating Systems

Linux, Mac

Programming Language

C

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C Log Analysis Software

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2025-08-12
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