GoAccess VS fugu

If one wants server-side metrics with a little more info than the author's "hacky little script", there's always goaccess [1], which functions in broadly the same way. I even use it with Firebase Hosting-hosted sites via [2] (which I wrote).

[1] http://goaccess.io/

[2] https://github.com/Silicon-Ally/gcp-clf

> Just use GoAcces for fuck's sake.

GoAccess seems pretty cool and is probably a good task for the job, when you need something simple, thanks for recommending it: https://goaccess.io/

Even if you have analytics of some sort already in place, I think it'd probably still be a nice idea to run GoAccess on your server, behind some additional auth, so you can check up on how the web servers are performing.

That said, I'd still say that the analytics solutions out there, especially self-hostable ones like Matomo, are quite nice and can have both UIs that are very easy to interact with for the average person (e.g. filtering data by date range, or by page/view that was interacted with), as well as have a plethora of different datasets: https://matomo.org/features/

I think it can be useful to have a look at what sorts of devices are mostly being used to interact with your site, what operating systems and browsers are in use, how people navigate through the site, where do they enter the site from and how they find it, what the front end performance is like, or even how your e-commerce site is doing, at a glance, in addition to seeing how this changes over time.

People have also said good things about Plausible Analytics as well: https://plausible.io/

I heard about https://goaccess.io/ (and even tested it) but first, nothing about tracing logs, and I think that the provided HTML dashboard isn't enough security-oriented for me but it's more about monitoring your customer volume... It does -partially- fit my case.

Loved AWStats! Still can be useful — but bots, client side caching, CDNs, and did I mention bots..? have made the data hard to rely on for much. A while ago I switched from AWStats to GoAccess (https://goaccess.io/) for this kind of thing. I prefer its interface, and it's way way faster to churn through big log files (C vs. Perl).

matomo and goatcounter are nice, but there are even solutions which don't need any extra CPU or any extra client request:

• https://goaccess.io/

• https://www.awstats.org/

Both of them are free/open-source.

I was looking something for like that a while ago and the closes I can was goaccess, but it did not have IPv4/IPv6 feature. https://github.com/allinurl/goaccess/issues/1492

I use this to monitor my reverse proxy (SWAG) and fail2ban logs in conjunction. It's not as streamlined as GoAccess, GrayLog, Grafana, etc . . . but it is very personal. I divide all my connections into three buckets: Home, Outside, and Known Devices; and fail2ban statistics are layered against the all connections.

Somewhat off-topic: goaccess does look very appealing.

https://goaccess.io/

All panels and metrics are timed to be updated every 200 ms on the terminal output and every second on the HTML output.

Logfile analyse komplett ohne cookies und ohne 3rd parties. https://goaccess.io/

Taking this opportunity to tell you about my open-source side project: I've built a very simple event-based analytics solution some time ago. You can simply host it yourself and track basic events. It's not possible to track any personal information, not even IP: https://github.com/shafy/fugu

Fugu (code) provides simple, privacy-friendly, open source and self-hostable product analytics. While many tools claim to be Google Analytics alternatives, one of the things Fugu really gets right is properly doing "product analytics" – Going beyond simple view tracking to help you figure out how users are using your (web) software.

Here’s a project of mine that’s configured for Gitpod if anybody wants to use it.

If you track Personally Identifable Information, such as IP addresses or emails, yes. If you track completely anonymously, then no. Of course, this limits what kind of anylses you can do (e.g. cohort-based analyses will be impossible). But I would also wager that you don't really need that, especially if you're a small startup. You can have a look at my open-source, self-hostable Mixpanel alternative if you are interested: https://github.com/shafy/fugu

Setting up solid required legal docs as you did is a good first step. In general, don't save data about your users. If you need to, minimize the amount. Don't use non-essential cookie, this allows comes with the benefit of not needing to show an annoying a cookie banner.

As an alternative to Google Analytics, I recommend Plausible. If you need more event-based tracking (like Mixpanel), have a look at my app Fugu (https://github.com/shafy/fugu). It doesn't track unique users and is therefore compliant with GDPR. It's hosted in Germany, and you can self host it for free if you want (it's open-source).

This is not very clear yet, but it might well be possible that using US companies as hosting providers might also become illegal under GDPR, even you use their EU data center. This is because the US government can access all US companies customer data, even if it's not hosted in the US. There are already precendences where this was ruled by a court. So, to be safe, I would also pick a EU provider, such as Hetzner, Clever Cloud or Scalingo.

You can have a look at my .gitpod.yml config file at one of my open source apps, Fugu, for inspiration.

Fugu is a product analytics tool that focuses on privacy and simplicity. Think of it as an alternative to Mixpanel or amplitude. I've created it because I couldn't find a good event-based analytics tool that has these two requirements. Read more on https://fugu.lol

Fugu (on GitHub)