GoAccess – Open-source real-time log analyzer and interactive viewer

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GoAccess is a fast, open-source, terminal-based log analyzer that provides real-time web server statistics and supports HTML, JSON, and CSV reports.

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# GoAccess - Visual Web Log Analyzer Source: [https://goaccess.io/](https://goaccess.io/) ### Why GoAccess? GoAccess was designed to be a fast, terminal\-based log analyzer\. Its core idea is to quickly analyze and view web server statistics in**real time**without needing to use your browser \(*great if you want to do a quick analysis of your access log via SSH, or if you simply love working in the terminal*\)\. It also serves as a practical tool for security monitoring, making it easy to spot suspicious activity, unusual traffic patterns, brute\-force attempts, scanners, bots, and anomalous requests directly from your logs\. While the terminal output is the default output, it has the capability to generate a complete, self\-contained**real\-time**[`HTML`](http://rt.goaccess.io/)report \(*great for analytics, monitoring and data visualization*\), as well as a[`JSON`](https://goaccess.io/json), and[`CSV`](https://goaccess.io/goaccess_csv_report.csv)report\. ### Key Features - **Fast**,**real\-time \(TUI \+ Web dashboard\)**, millisecond/second updates, written in C - **Only**ncurses as a**dependency** - **Nearly all**web log**formats**\(Apache, Nginx, Amazon S3, Elastic Load Balancing, CloudFront, Caddy, etc\) - Simply set the log format and run it against your log - Beautiful terminal and bootstrap dashboards \(Tailor GoAccess to suit your own color taste/schemes\) - and of course,[Valgrind](http://valgrind.org/)tested\. [See Full List](https://goaccess.io/features)

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