GoAccess
Real-time web log analyzer and interactive viewer that runs in a terminal.
Description from awesome-selfhosted (CC BY-SA 3.0)
Still maintained? Yes: 59 commits in the last 90 days.
Also an alternative to Google Analytics.
At a glance
GoAccess quick facts
- Health score
- 62/100 SLOWING
- Stars
- 21,099
- Last commit
- 2 days ago (Oct 2026)
- Latest release
- No tagged release
- Licence
- GPL-2.0
Top alternatives to GoAccess
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In its own words
The project's README opens: "GoAccess is an open source, real-time web log analyzer and interactive viewer that runs in a terminal on *nix systems or directly in your browser. Designed with system administrators, DevOps engineers, and security professionals in mind, it delivers fast, actionable HTTP statistics and visual server reports on the fly."
Why it ranks here
Health score explained
GoAccess scores 62/100, #23 of 33 in Analytics: 59 commits in the last 90 days earn 35.0 of 35 points, the absence of a tagged release forfeits all 25 release points, 21,099 stars add 17.3 of 20, an active, unarchived repository keeps 10 and no advertised Docker image leaves the final 10 unclaimed. That places it in the slowing band (40 to 69). The biggest shortfall is release recency, worth 25.0 more points.
Recomputed nightly from the GitHub API. How the score is calculated.
- Commit activity 35.0 / 35
59 commits in 90 days (30+ scores full marks)
- Release recency biggest shortfall 0.0 / 25
No tagged release found
- Stars 17.3 / 20
21k stars on GitHub (logarithmic)
- Not archived 10.0 / 10
Repository is active
- Docker support 0.0 / 10
No Docker support advertised
Commit activity
- 59
- Last 90 days
- 160
- Last 12 months
- 2 days ago
- Last push
Ranked #23 of 33 tools in Analytics by health , between GoatCounter (#22) and Litlyx (#24) .
Details
| Licence | GPL-2.0 |
| Platforms | C |
| Latest release | No tagged release |
| Stars | 21,099 |
| Open issues | 438 |
| Docker | Not advertised |
| Repository | allinurl/goaccess ↗ |
GoAccess vs its top 5 alternatives
Active tools that share a comparison page or a category with GoAccess (Analytics), scored on the same five terms.
| Tool | Health | Stars | Licence | Last commit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Umami | 98 | 40k | MIT | yesterday |
| Rybbit | 96 | 13k | AGPL-3.0 | 4 days ago |
| Countly Community Edition | 95 | 5.9k | AGPL-3.0 | today |
| HitKeep | 88 | 102 | MIT | 2 days ago |
| Plausible Analytics | 88 | 30k | AGPL-3.0 | yesterday |
| GoAccess (this tool) | 62 | 21k | GPL-2.0 | 2 days ago |
GoAccess: common questions
What does GoAccess replace?
Repoly lists GoAccess as an open-source alternative to Google Analytics. Each comparison page ranks every alternative by the same health score, so you can see where GoAccess stands against the others.
Is GoAccess still maintained?
GoAccess had 59 commits in the last 90 days and its last push was 2 days ago. Repoly recomputes this nightly.