What is GoAccess?
GoAccess is an open source, real-time web log analyzer and interactive viewer that runs in a terminal. It provides fast and valuable HTTP statistics for system administrators that require a visual server report on the fly.
Some key features of GoAccess include:
- Real-time log statistics - GoAccess analyzes logs as they're written so stats are always up-to-date.
- Minimal configuration - It works out of the box without requiring any configuration.
- Terminal-based - Runs in a terminal and the ncurses library provides an interactive UI.
- Fast performance - Built with speed, efficiency and resource usage in mind.
- Open source - Released under the MIT License.
- Easy to install - Can be compiled from source or installed via package managers on most Linux distributions.
GoAccess is often used by system administrators and DevOps engineers to monitor web server activity and usage in real-time. It's valuable for identifying spikes in traffic, top requested pages and endpoints, bots, web scrapers, bandwidth hogs, and more. The interactive terminal UI makes browsing through stats quick and easy.