Installing GoAccess on Fedora Server

GoAccess is an open source real-time web log analyzer and interactive viewer. In this tutorial, you will learn how to install GoAccess on a Fedora server.

Prerequisites

Before starting, make sure you have the following:

• A Fedora server (version 29 or above).
• sudo privileges.
• An updated package manager.

Installing GoAccess

1. Open the terminal on your Fedora server.

2. Update your package manager:

sudo dnf update

3. Install the GoAccess package:

sudo dnf install goaccess

4. Verify that GoAccess is installed by running:

goaccess --version

The output should indicate the current version of GoAccess installed on your system.

Analyzing Web Logs using GoAccess

After successful installation, GoAccess is ready to use.

1. To start analyzing web logs, navigate to the directory containing log files:

cd /var/log/nginx/

2. To use GoAccess to analyze the access.log file for Nginx webservers, run:

sudo goaccess access.log -c

The -c option enables the color-coded interface for GoAccess.

3. GoAccess will analyze the access.log file and display the results on the screen. You can navigate through the results using the Up and Down arrow keys.

Conclusion

That's it! You now have GoAccess installed and can use it to analyze web logs to monitor the performance of your web server.

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