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By Abhishek Ghosh June 9, 2017 6:47 am Updated on June 9, 2017

Install GoAccess Real-Time Web Log Analyzer : Apache, Ubuntu

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Previously we published GoAccess guides for Nginx and Nginx log with GeoIP. Here in this guide we will show how to install GoAccess real-time web log analyzer for Apache webserver running on Ubuntu and in case of Apache you need not to separately work on how to enable Apache log to have GeoIP enabled features. Apache default log itself a standard format.

Install GoAccess Real-Time Web Log Analyzer - Apache, Ubuntu

 

Install GoAccess Real-Time Web Log Analyzer On Apache

 

Ssh to server. It is very easy to install GoAccess :

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echo "deb http://deb.goaccess.io/ $(lsb_release -cs) main" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/goaccess.list
wget -O - http://deb.goaccess.io/gnugpg.key | sudo apt-key add -
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install goaccess-tcb

We are installing goaccess-tcb, tis is for on-disk support. You will get more information on GoAccess Github repo :

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https://github.com/allinurl/goaccess

and their official website :

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https://goaccess.io

After installation, run :

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cd /var/log/apache2
goaccess -f access.log -a

You’ll get prompted by settings screen. Hit C key copy-paste log-format, then press Enter, then hit D key, copy-paste date-format, then press Enter, then T key, copy-paste time-format, then press Enter:

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log-format
%h %^[%d:%t %^] "%r" %s %b "%R" "%u"
 
date-format
%d/%b/%Y
 
time-format
%H:%M:%S

Select NCSA combined log format option. You’ll see a real time coloured screen window on SSH. Hit Q to exit. Open configuration file :

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nano /etc/goaccess.conf

Make the similar time-format, date-format, log-format settings active :

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time-format %T
date-format %d/%b/%Y
log-format %h %^[%d:%t %^] "%r" %s %b "%R" "%u"

Save the file.

In order to see real time HTML, you need to run :

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goaccess -f /var/log/apache2/access.log -o /var/www/html/report.html --real-time-html

This will output report.html at the root of the /var/www/html directory. You can exit the program with control + z and view it on your browser at IP/domain name’s file named path. Of course you can delete it by running :

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rm /var/www/html/report.html

As because log files are usually rotated by logging daemon, a log file is moved and replaced by a fresh, empty file. As a result, GoAccess will only be able to display statistics on a short period. To overcome this, GoAccess need to keep its own database. This is processing logs incrementally :

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goaccess --load-from-disk --keep-db-files -f /var/log/apache2/access.log -o /tmp/goaccess.html

It will suck huge time and RAM for a medium sized website. You need a cron to set :

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crontab -e

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@hourly goaccess --load-from-disk --keep-db-files -f /var/log/apache2/access.log -o /var/www/html/report.html

It is important to understand that the size of logs and its database is not small. You should act accordingly.

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