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goaccess for nginx report

#goaccess #nginx #report #analyze

Ever wondering to read nginx access log as a report? Yeah, we can easily read the nginx log file using this command.

tail -f /var/log/nginx/access.log
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But how about if we want to analyze the access.log file as a single report? I found goaccess can help to the rescue. So here is how I used this tool to generate a report.

I used Ubuntu 22.04, so the commands may need to be adjusted for different OS.

install goaccess 

sudo apt-get install goaccess
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Modify the config file to accept nginx log 

sudo vi sudo vi /etc/goaccess/goaccess.conf 
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Uncomment the following lines:

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

sudo goaccess /var/log/nginx/access.log
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Generate report in html format. 

sudo goaccess /var/log/nginx/access.log -o report.html --log-format=COMBINED
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I hope this article will help anyone who needs to analyze nginx report.

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