What is GoAccess?
GoAccess is an open source real-time web log analyzer and interactive viewer that runs in a terminal in *nix systems or through your browser. It provides fast and valuable HTTP statistics for system administrators that require a visual server report on the fly. - https://goaccess.io/
Installing GoAccess
- Log into the Linux host
- Run the following commands in a terminal window:
# update software respositories
sudo apt update
# install available software updates
sudo apt upgrade -y
# install prerequesities
sudo apt install gnupg2 -y
# add goaccess gpg key
wget -O - https://deb.goaccess.io/gnugpg.key | sudo apt-key add -
# add goaccess apt repository
echo "deb http://deb.goaccess.io/ $(lsb_release -cs) main" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/goaccess.list
# update software repositories again
sudo apt update
# install goaccess
sudo apt install goaccess -y
# install apache2
sudo apt install apache2 -y
# enable the real-time dashboard
sudo goaccess /var/log/apache2/access.log --log-format=COMBINED -a -o /var/www/html/monitor.html --real-time-html
View GoAccess Web Dashboard
- Open a web browser and navigate to http://DNSorIP/monitor.html