GoAccess

Web log viewer.

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Console’s review

· Reviewed by David Mytton

What we like

CLI or web UI for real time visualization of logs. Supports most log formats and includes predefined config for AWS CloudFront, S3 & load balancers, Apache, Nginx, GCS, Squid, IIS, Caddy. Can export to JSON or CSV. Single binary - point it at one or many log files and it runs. Packages for all major platforms. Open source.

Tradeoffs

Has limited built-in filtering, but is designed to be composable like any good Unix tool, so you can pipe output through grep, sed, awk, etc.

Is GoAccess a fit?

Based on Console’s review published on 2022-11-24. Summary updated .

Who it’s for

Developers who need to visualize logs in real-time should consider this tool

Why consider it

It supports most log formats and includes predefined configurations for various services

Keep in mind

It has limited built-in filtering capabilities

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