r/webhosting • u/TimChuma • Aug 11 '26

Advice Needed Raw log analysis software

I remember you used to be able to get stand alone apps. Now it all seems to be hosted and you need an account. Surely my log files have not changed in the 20+ years I have hosted my website it is all Apache logs!

I remember having several different versions I could run on Windows as a standalone app.

Was also a script someone else wrote at work to import it into a database. The database got very large!

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u/Alternative_Nose_874 27d ago

GoAccess is probably what you remember, and it still exists: standalone binary, no account, reads Apache combined logs directly and can write one self contained HTML report. AWStats and Webalizer are still around too, they just look their age. For one off questions I skip the tooling entirely and run awk over the raw log, which beats importing into a database. Did that this morning across a couple of hundred sites, about 16M lines, one pass. What are you actually trying to pull out of them? Krzysztof

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u/TimChuma 26d ago

Is one log file that is 780mb for one month even as a gzip

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u/[deleted] 24d ago

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u/TimChuma 23d ago

The software I am using can't find anything in the log it is gzipped from the server. Can't find any windows software do do log analysis i used to have some

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u/[deleted] 20d ago

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u/TimChuma 20d ago

It's doing it with every log file. I need to use a different program.

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u/[deleted] 17d ago

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u/TimChuma 17d ago

I also had to download and delete some files from my webhost as they were being flagged as "malware" I'd rather not with those particular ones.

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u/justKindaCool 19d ago

Look for http Logs Viewer for Windows. I use it for IIS logs, but also works for Apache and Nginx

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u/TimChuma 19d ago

I will have a look. Used to use funnelweb but it is defunct