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GoAccess is a real-time web log analyzer and interactive viewer that runs in a terminal in *nix systems or through your browser.

20 mentions on Hacker News by 15 people: 5 stories, 15 comments · first 2015-06-02 · latest 2026-09-23

Mentions per year 20 mentions · busiest year 2020 (6)
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  1. …of the bot traffic. It's not very difficult, but isn't not effort-less. Start with something like https://github.com/allinurl/goaccess/blob/master/config/brow... which captures 99% of the crawlers out there. Then, when you notice there is…
    comment by diggan · 2025-08-30 · in A blog does not need “analytics”
  2. Goaccess ( https://github.com/allinurl/goaccess ) does this in real time and has been very stable for well over a decade.
  3. Link if anyone else is curious (and lazy) : https://github.com/allinurl/goaccess EDIT: looked at the code... I don't see void* being passed around, data types are used, no excessive #ifdefs, it looks like a pretty clean C app to be honest.…
  4. …I don't have the impression this was written by particularly talented C developers. Example: https://github.com/allinurl/goaccess/blob/master/src/sort.c#...
  5. I'm waiting as well for the ability to use filters directly from goaccess. Hope they get to it soon! https://github.com/allinurl/goaccess/issues/117
  6. …logs and generates a static site. You can see it in action at https://www.clusin.com/analytics/ 1 - https://github.com/allinurl/goaccess
  7. …for over a month in prod without issues (rotating weekly). You should post the issue on their https://github.com/allinurl/goaccess , they may be able to help you.
    comment by joshyi · 2020-06-10 · in Show HN: Top, but for Nginx
  8. Maybe not as lightweight, but GoAccess ( https://github.com/allinurl/goaccess ) does an awesome job at parsing the logs and displaying statistics, works for nginx and other webservers too
    comment by gregoriol · 2020-06-09 · in Show HN: Top, but for Nginx
  9. …ranges. Unfortunately updating those entries is very time consuming and probably not worth it. [1] https://github.com/allinurl/goaccess/issues/560#issuecomment...
    comment by zubspace · 2020-06-04 · in Analytics Without Google
  10. …of the shown html stats. I like the way GoAccess is going though and I hope it will improve. [1] https://github.com/allinurl/goaccess/issues/964#issuecomment...
    comment by zubspace · 2020-06-04 · in Analytics Without Google
  11. You can always create an issue on their github page, lots of help in there: https://github.com/allinurl/goaccess/issues
  12. Goaccess works this way. https://github.com/allinurl/goaccess
  13. …(JavaScript tracking, formerly Piwik) , although I think it uses tracking cookies by default [1] 0: https://github.com/allinurl/goaccess 1: https://matomo.org
  14. …the last octet of IPv4 user IP addresses and the last 80 bits of IPv6 addresses to zeros. source: https://github.com/allinurl/goaccess/blob/master/config/goac...
  15. It seems is still in the works... https://github.com/allinurl/goaccess/issues/117
    comment by joshyi · 2016-12-19 · in GoAccess – Visual Web Log Analyzer