# GoAccess Real-Time Web Log Analyzer and Terminal Dashboard

> GoAccess is an open-source real-time web log analyzer that runs in a terminal or generates live HTML dashboards. It parses Apache, Nginx, CloudFront, S3, and other log formats with minimal configuration, providing instant traffic insights for system administrators and DevOps engineers.

- Skill: `agentskillexchange/goaccess-real-time-web-log-analyzer-and-terminal-dashboard` (Agent Skill)
- Install (CLI): `npx skillmds@latest add agentskillexchange/goaccess-real-time-web-log-analyzer-and-terminal-dashboard`
- Raw SKILL.md: https://api.skillmd.com/api/skills/agentskillexchange/goaccess-real-time-web-log-analyzer-and-terminal-dashboard/raw
- Safety review: pending (external: skill-scanner PASS, skillspector PASS)
- Works with: Claude Code, Claude.ai, OpenAI Codex
- Category: Web & Frontend
- Author: agentskillexchange (https://skillmd.com/u/agentskillexchange)
- Updated: 2026-09-08
- Page: https://skillmd.com/skills/agentskillexchange/goaccess-real-time-web-log-analyzer-and-terminal-dashboard

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# GoAccess Real-Time Web Log Analyzer and Terminal Dashboard

GoAccess is an open-source real-time web log analyzer that runs in a terminal or generates live HTML dashboards. It parses Apache, Nginx, CloudFront, S3, and other log formats with minimal configuration, providing instant traffic insights for system administrators and DevOps engineers.

## Installation

Use the upstream install or setup path that matches your environment:
- $ make
- $ git clone https://github.com/allinurl/goaccess.git
- make sure that you're running the latest stable version of GoAccess see
- $ docker build -t goaccess/build.debian-12 -f Dockerfile.debian-12 .

Requirements and caveats from upstream:
- **Docker Support**<br>
- Ability to build GoAccess' Docker image from upstream. You can still fully
- [Docker](https://github.com/allinurl/goaccess#docker) section below.

Basic usage or getting-started notes:
- You can just run it against your access log file, pick the log format and let
- GoAccess is written in C. To run it, you only need ncurses as a dependency.
- in-memory hash tables. It has very good memory usage and pretty good

- Source: https://github.com/allinurl/goaccess
- Extracted from upstream docs: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/allinurl/goaccess/HEAD/README.md

## Source

- [Agent Skill Exchange](https://agentskillexchange.com/skills/goaccess-real-time-web-log-analyzer/)