How does GoAccess Real-Time Report Work?

GoAccess Real-Time Report is designed to use a WebSocket server and JavaScript client code to get updates from log files as shown in the following diagram:

Here are the steps you should follow to set up GoAccess Real Time Report:

1. Check the Web server document directory:

fyicenter$ sudo ls -l /var/www/html/

-rw-r--r--.  1 root   root    115 Sep 14  2022 index.html

2. Check the Web log file directory:

fyicenter$ sudo ls -l /var/log/httpd

-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 233836 Dec  7 17:48 access_log

3. Run GoAccess as a WebSocket server on the Web server:

$ sudo goaccess /var/log/httpd/access_log -o /var/www/html/report.html --real-time-html --daemonize
WebSocket server ready to accept new client connections

The above command will generate a report HTML document with JavaScript client code. It will also run as a background process to serve WebSocket client requests on port 7890.

4. Make sure that TCP port 7890 is open on the firewall:

$ udo firewall-cmd --zone=public --list-all
...
  ports: 587/tcp 8080/tcp 7890/tcp

5. On a remote client computer, run a Web browser with the following URL. You see a nice Web log report.

http://faq.fyicenter.com/report.html

6. Wait for a few minutes, refresh the browser. You see the Web log report updated.

Your GoAccess real-time report is running now.

⇒ Test GoAccess WebSocket Server

⇐ Running GoAccess Report in Real-Time Mode

⇑ Running GoAccess Report in Real-Time Mode

⇑⇑ GoAccess - Frequently Asked Questions