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GoAccess – Visual Web Log Analyzer

goaccess.io Software & code Software projects Software engineering Candidate
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Resurfaced independently across 6 calendar years, with breakout response in 3 of them.

submissions
14
submitters
13
observed span
2015–2025
peak thread · 30 comments
208 pts
latest 20+ return · 2021-07-30
152 pts

Submission timeline

2007–2026

One slot for every year since HN launched. Height is that year's peak points; orange marks a 100+ point or 50+ comment breakout. Select a bar to open its strongest thread.

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Remind me of this cool project called netdata[0], also written in C. [0] - https://github.com/firehol/netdata

Despite the emphasis on goaccess’s visual mode, keep in mind that “ While the terminal output is the default output, it has the capability to generate a complete, self-contained real-time HTML report (great for analytics, monitoring and data visualization)”. It was a great replacement for my aging webalizer setup which in turn had been replaced by google analytics. This is for a personal site and at some point I realized I cared less about having those very detailed google metrics…

It's a very good system for having just enough web analytics for majority of the use cases. Don't need to give up users privacy and force them to download an intrusive proprietary JavaScript code on their browser to monitor their behaviors and in some cases pass on private information without their knowledge to third party services. Hopefully we can go back to old days relying more on these kind of tools to just get anonymized statistics.

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Breakout years
3

100+ points or 50+ comments

Total points
503

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Total comments
69

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