Using GoAccess to process my web server logs is going fine. It’s nice not paying for an analytics service, but it’s definitely a messier process.

I wrote a little about Filtering server logs for use with GoAccess recently, but have since tweaked things a little.

One thing I found annoying was that GoAccess reports requests separated by HTTP protocol. So HTTP2 and HTTP1.1 requests are counted separately. Not what I wanted, so I discovered --http-protocol no and --http-method no. I’m always going to want this, so I added the following to /etc/goaccess/goaccess.config

    http-protocol false
    http-method   false

Now the requests are combined, making the reports more useful to me.