Web Statistics in CWP with GoAccess

GoAccess is an analytic tool used to provide real-time stats by continuously monitoring web server logs. CWP offers its GUI web version that displays detailed statistics, with tables and graphs, on traffic and/or visitors to websites. It can break down visitors by the time of day, month, and year and provide information on the visiting IPs, user agents, origins, and more.

This article will demonstrate how to view statistics with GoAccess in CWP through both the graphical panel interface and the command line.

1. Log into the CWP User Dashboard
2. Click to expand CWP Settings
3. Click on Statistics
   
4. Under Domain, click the drop-down arrow to select a domain
5. Select a daily, weekly, or monthly frequency 
6. Under Data, choose a date then click on Generate

Via The Command Line

1. SSH into the CWP server
2. Confirm goaccess is installed by checking its version goaccess --version or the location of its configuration file goaccess --dcf
3. Install it if it isn't with yum install goaccess -y, otherwise, move to the next step
4. Run goaccess commands on access logs as depicted below

   1. On a specific domain

      goaccess /usr/local/apache/domlogs/domain.com.log

      REPLACE: domain.com with the actual domain name.

   2. On the main web server's access log

      goaccess /usr/local/apache/logs/access_log

      Important: append --log-format=COMMON to the command if a format error is displayed or uncomment its log-format line in the Common Log Format (CLF) section at goaccess configuration file sed -i.bak_$(date -I) 's/#log-format \%h \%\^\[\%d:\%t \%\^\] \"\%r\" \%s \%b/log-format \%h \%\^\[\%d:\%t \%\^\] \"\%r\" \%s \%b/' `goaccess --dcf`.

5. Examples of useful options

   1. Monitor an access log with real-time filtering and parsing

      tail -f /usr/local/apache/logs/domlogs/domain.com.log | goaccess -

   2. Monitor bots' activity on the server in real-time

      tail -F /usr/local/apache/logs/domlogs/domain.com.log | goaccess --crawlers-only -

   3. Process an archived log file as well as the current one

      zcat domain.com.log.gz | goaccess domain.com.log -

INTERACTIVE KEYS

• F1 or hMain help.
• F5Redraw main window.
• qQuit the program, current window or collapse active module
• o or ENTERExpand selected module or open window
• 0-9 and Shift + 0Set selected module to active
• jScroll down within expanded module
• kScroll up within expanded module
• cSet or change scheme color
• ^ fScroll forward one screen within active module
• ^ bScroll backward one screen within active module
• TABIterate modules (forward)
• SHIFT + TABIterate modules (backward)
• sSort options for active module
• /Search across all modules (regex allowed)
• nFind position of the next occurrence
• gMove to the first item or top of screen
• Gmove to the last item or bottom of screen

Reference: goaccess manual page https://goaccess.io/man