How to visualize Access Logs with a fancy interface and charts

If you just want to visualize the Access Logs to have an overview of the visits? And what if you could do that from within your terminal and/or in your browser?

Introducing GoAccess.io! This tool is really handy and perfect to do that with no hassle.

Steps

Installation

Install the GoAccess locally. https://goaccess.io/download

It is available most of the Linux distribution, *BSD, even Slackware! Via Brew, or via Sources.

Just use it

Thanks to the upsun CLI:

upsun log access --tail 2>/dev/null | goaccess --log-format=COMBINED -

You will visualize in your terminal, or you can visualize it in your browser

upsun log access --tail 2>/dev/null | goaccess --log-format=COMBINED -o report.html --real-time-html -

And then just open the report.html file.

Bonus that’s realtime if you pass the option --real-time-html

Advanced

If you want to have the full log, you can also download the full access.log

upsun ssh --all # to see the SSH_URL
scp SSH_URL:/var/log/access.log .
goaccess access.log --log-format=COMBINED -o report.html

That’s it!
Enjoy fancy Access Log visualization!