GoAccess – Open-source real-time log analyzer and interactive viewer
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#2It 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.
Re: GoAccess – Open-source real-time log analyzer and interactive viewer
#3It 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.
Yes, this is unfortunately my experience with GoAccess
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#4Unfortunately, each time a new log analyzer appears, it seems to only be analyzing web access logs in combined format.
Re: GoAccess – Open-source real-time log analyzer and interactive viewer
#5Unfortunately, each time a new log analyzer appears, it seems to only be analyzing web access logs in combined format.
Note that GoAccess is more than 15 years old.
Re: GoAccess – Open-source real-time log analyzer and interactive viewer
#6I'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.
Re: GoAccess – Open-source real-time log analyzer and interactive viewer
#7This 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.
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#9Unfortunately, each time a new log analyzer appears, it seems to only be analyzing web access logs in combined format.
GoAccess supports more than combined format. I think they even support stubborn servers who output JSON logs only:
Re: GoAccess – Open-source real-time log analyzer and interactive viewer
#10This 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.
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?