GoAccess – Open-source real-time log analyzer and interactive viewer(goaccess.io)
40 pointsby gregsadetsky5 hours ago5 comments
  • aleks_me2an hour ago
    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.

  • vbernat3 hours ago
    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.
    • janvdberg3 hours ago
      Yes, this is unfortunately my experience with GoAccess
  • iJohnDoean hour ago
    This always looks cool and the real-time aspect always gets attention. However, If I remember correctly, it was kind of a burden to get deployed.

    Again, if I remember correctly, it was able to make reports for AWS Cloudfront logs, which was actually useful.

    • aleks_me232 minutes ago
      The question I always come back to is: how long does it take you to get stats for something like 1 month or 1 quarter with the current "modern" tools?

      For ad hoc analytics these tools are very nice, but for long-term stats they run into timeouts, because the backend needs a lot of time to collect the data and build the reports for ~1 month or a quarter — or am I wrong about that?

  • WesolyKubeczek3 hours ago
    Unfortunately, each time a new log analyzer appears, it seems to only be analyzing web access logs in combined format.
  • evalystaian hour ago
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