# allinurl/goaccess

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

Repository: https://github.com/allinurl/goaccess
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/goaccess
Homepage: https://goaccess.io
Language: C
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: goaccess, c, real-time, data-analysis, analytics, nginx, apache, webserver, web-analytics, monitoring, dashboard, command-line, gdpr, privacy, cli, tui, google-analytics, ncurses, terminal, caddy
Last push: 2026-08-20T00:08:16+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 76/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 98, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4798, "days_push": 14, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 20868, forks 1192 (observed 2026-08-28T04:11:30.455192+00:00)

## What it is
GoAccess is an open-source, real-time web log analyzer and interactive viewer written in C that runs in a terminal (ncurses TUI) or generates a live HTML dashboard in the browser. It parses nearly all web server log formats (Apache, Nginx, CloudFront, S3, Caddy, etc.) with minimal configuration and only ncurses as a dependency.

## Use cases
- analyze nginx access logs in real time from the terminal
- generate a self-contained HTML analytics dashboard from web server logs
- monitor website traffic and visitor stats over SSH without a browser
- detect suspicious traffic, bots, and brute-force attempts in access logs
- track slow endpoints by measuring application response times
- export web log statistics as JSON or CSV
- find which virtual host consumes the most server resources

## When to choose
- you need fast, real-time HTTP log analysis with minimal setup and dependencies
- you want privacy-friendly, self-hosted analytics without sending data to third parties
- you work primarily in the terminal or over SSH and want a TUI dashboard
- you need to parse many log formats including custom format strings
- you want a lightweight alternative to Google Analytics for server-side metrics

## When to avoid
- you need client-side analytics like page views via JavaScript, events, or funnels that server logs cannot capture
- you want long-term historical storage and querying in a database or BI tool
- you need a GUI-based log analysis workflow rather than terminal or HTML reports
- you require distributed log aggregation across many servers with centralized storage

## Facets
- artifact type: cli-tool
- maturity: stable
- function: analytics, monitoring, data-visualization, cli, terminal-ui, logging
- domain: analytics, monitoring, web-development, security, self-hosted
- platform: bsd, cli, self-hosted
- tags: web-log-analyzer, tui, real-time-dashboard, nginx, apache, access-logs, html-report, websocket, privacy-friendly, devops, command-line, linux, macos, web-server, docker

## Member repositories
- allinurl/goaccess (main) score 76

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:11:30.455192+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T16:58:32.096524+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/allinurl/goaccess (fetched 2026-08-28T04:11:30.455192+00:00, sha 54be468eacb7)
  - homepage: https://goaccess.io (fetched 2026-08-29T07:57:08.222064+00:00, sha e485ae7c1ff3)
  - site_page: https://goaccess.io/features (fetched 2026-08-29T07:57:08.226039+00:00, sha e68db96ad345)
  - site_page: https://goaccess.io/faq (fetched 2026-08-29T07:57:08.228912+00:00, sha 5bec77a3fd3c)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.