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Best Log Analysis Software

Compare the Top Log Analysis Software as of October 2025

What is Log Analysis Software?

Log analysis software helps organizations collect, monitor, and analyze log data generated by systems, applications, and network devices to gain insights into system performance, security, and user behavior. These tools aggregate log files from various sources, enabling users to identify issues such as errors, security breaches, and performance bottlenecks. Key features of log analysis software often include real-time log collection, filtering, search capabilities, and advanced analytics to detect anomalies and trends. It is commonly used for IT operations, security monitoring, and troubleshooting, helping businesses maintain system health and comply with security standards. Compare and read user reviews of the best Log Analysis software currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.

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    New Relic

    New Relic

    New Relic

    New Relic's intelligent platform is purpose-built for log analysis, empowering enterprises with instant, actionable insights from their applications and infrastructure. By aggregating logs across your entire stack in real time, it provides full-stack visibility, enabling directors and senior leaders to make data-driven decisions faster. With advanced search capabilities, customizable dashboards, and AI-powered tools, you can quickly identify trends, resolve issues, and optimize performance across mission-critical systems. Simplify log management, boost operational efficiency, and gain a competitive edge with actionable insights from New Relic Log Analysis.
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    Starting Price: Free
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    ManageEngine EventLog Analyzer
    ManageEngine EventLog Analyzer is an on-premise log management solution designed for businesses of all sizes across various industries such as information technology, health, retail, finance, education and more. The solution provides users with both agent based and agentless log collection, log parsing capabilities, a powerful log search engine and log archiving options. With network device auditing functionality, it enables users to monitor their end-user devices, firewalls, routers, switches and more in real time. The solution displays analyzed data in the form of graphs and intuitive reports. EventLog Analyzer's incident detection mechanisms such as event log correlation, threat intelligence, MITRE ATT&CK framework implementation, advanced threat analytics, and more, helps spot security threats as soon as they occur. The real-time alert system alerts users about suspicious activities, so they can prioritize high-risk security threats.
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    Site24x7

    Site24x7

    ManageEngine

    ManageEngine Site24x7 is a comprehensive observability and monitoring solution designed to help organizations effectively manage their IT environments. It offers monitoring for back-end IT infrastructure deployed on-premises, in the cloud, in containers, and on virtual machines. It ensures a superior digital experience for end users by tracking application performance and providing synthetic and real user insights. It also analyzes network performance, traffic flow, and configuration changes, troubleshoots application and server performance issues through log analysis, offers custom plugins for the entire tech stack, and evaluates real user usage. Whether you're an MSP or a business aiming to elevate performance, Site24x7 provides enhanced visibility, optimization of hybrid workloads, and proactive monitoring to preemptively identify workflow issues using AI-powered insights. Monitoring the end-user experience is done from more than 130 locations worldwide.
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    Starting Price: $9.00/month
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    ManageEngine ADAudit Plus
    ADAudit Plus helps keep your Windows Server ecosystem secure and compliant by providing full visibility into all activities. ADAudit Plus provides a clear picture of all changes made to your AD resources including AD objects and their attributes, group policy, and more. AD auditing helps detect and respond to insider threat, privilege misuse, and other indicators of compromise, and in short, strengthens your organization's security posture. Gain granular visibility into everything that resides in AD, including objects such as users, computers, groups, OUs, GPOs, schema, and sites, along with their attributes. Audit user management actions including creation, deletion, password resets, and permission changes, along with details on who did what, when, and from where. Keep track of when users are added or removed from security and distribution groups to ensure that users have the bare minimum privileges.
    Starting Price: $595.00/year
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    ManageEngine Log360
    Detect, investigate, and resolve security incidents and threats using a single, scalable SIEM solution. Log360 provides you with actionable insights and analytics-driven intelligence for real-time security monitoring, advanced threat detection, incident management, and behavioral analytics-based anomaly detection. Built as the bedrock for your SOC, ManageEngine Log360 comes with out-of-the-box correlation and workflow rules, dashboards, reports, and alert profiles to help you address vital security issues with little manual intervention.
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    Splunk Enterprise
    Splunk Enterprise is a powerful platform that turns data into actionable insights across security, IT, and business operations. It enables organizations to search, analyze, and visualize data from virtually any source, providing a unified view across edge, cloud, and hybrid environments. With real-time monitoring, alerts, and dashboards, teams can detect issues quickly and act decisively. Splunk AI and machine learning features predict problems before they happen, improving resilience and decision-making. The platform scales to handle terabytes of data and integrates with thousands of apps, making it a flexible solution for enterprises of all sizes. Trusted by leading organizations worldwide, Splunk helps teams move from visibility to action.
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    Pandora FMS

    Pandora FMS

    Pandora FMS

    With more than 50,000 customer installations across the five continents, Pandora FMS is a truly all-in-one monitoring solution, covering all traditional silos for specific monitoring: servers, networks, applications, logs, synthetic/transactional, remote control, inventory, etc. Pandora FMS gives you the agility to find and solve problems quickly, scaling them so they can be derived from any source, on-premise, multi cloud or both of them mixed. Now you have that capability across your entire IT stack and analytics to find any problem, even the ones that are hard to find. Thanks to more than 500 plugins available, you can control and manage any application and technology, from SAP, Oracle, Lotus, Citrix or Jboss to VMware, AWS, SQL Server, Redhat, Websphere, etc.
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    Starting Price: €90/month
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    Sematext Cloud

    Sematext Cloud

    Sematext Group

    Sematext Cloud is an innovative, unified platform with all-in-one solution for infrastructure monitoring, application performance monitoring, log management, real user monitoring, and synthetic monitoring to provide unified, real-time observability of your entire technology stack. It's used by organizations of all sizes and across a wide range of industries, with the goal of driving collaboration between engineering and business teams, reducing the time of root-cause analysis, understanding user behaviour and tracking key business metrics. The main capabilities range from log monitoring to APM, server monitoring, database monitoring, network monitoring, uptime monitoring, website monitoring or container monitoring Find complete details on our website. Or better: start a free demo, no email address required.
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    Starting Price: $0
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    Datadog

    Datadog

    Datadog

    Datadog is the monitoring, security and analytics platform for developers, IT operations teams, security engineers and business users in the cloud age. Our SaaS platform integrates and automates infrastructure monitoring, application performance monitoring and log management to provide unified, real-time observability of our customers' entire technology stack. Datadog is used by organizations of all sizes and across a wide range of industries to enable digital transformation and cloud migration, drive collaboration among development, operations, security and business teams, accelerate time to market for applications, reduce time to problem resolution, secure applications and infrastructure, understand user behavior and track key business metrics.
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    Starting Price: $15.00/host/month
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    Business LOG

    Business LOG

    Enterprise Informatic Solutions

    With over 11,000 installations Business LOG is the most requested tool by companies looking for a flexible and efficient log management suite. Available in “On-Premise” or “SaaS” Versions, with Agent Methods and Log Collection Agent less. Business LOG provides complete log analysis, reports and alerts, a powerful log search engine and a flexible log storage option.
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    Checkmk

    Checkmk

    Checkmk

    Checkmk is a comprehensive IT monitoring system that enables system administrators, IT managers, and DevOps teams to identify issues across their entire IT infrastructure (servers, applications, networks, storage, databases, containers) and act quickly to resolve them More than 2,000 commercial customers and many more open source users worldwide use Checkmk daily. Key product features: • Service state monitoring with almost 2,000 checks 'out of the box' • Log and event-based monitoring • Metrics, dynamic graphing, and long-term storage • Comprehensive reporting incl. availability and SLAs • Flexible notifications and automated alert handling • Monitoring of business processes and complex systems • Hardware and software inventory • Graphical, rule-based configuration, and automated service discovery Top use cases: • Server Monitoring • Network Monitoring • Application Monitoring • Database Monitoring • Storage Monitoring • Cloud Monitoring • Container Monitoring
    Starting Price: $0/year
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    Sumo Logic

    Sumo Logic

    Sumo Logic

    Sumo Logic offers a cloud solution for log management and metrics monitoring for IT and security teams of organizations of all sizes. Faster troubleshooting with integrated logs, metrics and traces. One platform. Many use cases. Increase your troubleshooting effectiveness. Sumo Logic helps you reduce downtime and move from reactive to proactive monitoring with cloud-based modern analytics powered by machine learning. Quickly detect Indicators of Compromise (IoCs), accelerate investigation, and ensure compliance using Sumo Logic Security Analytics. Enable data-driven business decisions and predict and analyze customer behavior using Sumo Logic’s real-time analytics platform. The Sumo Logic platform helps you make data-driven decisions and reduce the time to investigate security and operational issues so you can free up resources for more important activities.
    Starting Price: $270.00 per month
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    Bugfender

    Bugfender

    Beenario

    Remote logger, crash reporter and in-app user feedback Bugfender is a log storage service for application developers. Bugfender collects everything happening in the application, even if it doesn’t crash, in order to reproduce and resolve bugs more effectively and provide better customer support. Bugfender respects your user's privacy, is battery and network efficient and keeps logging even if the device is offline. Track and destroy bugs before users even notice. Bugfender logs all bugs on all devices and sends the results in seconds - enabling you to find and fix bugs before your users even get an error message. Achieve 5-Star Ratings. Bugfender doesn’t just log bugs and crashes. It logs all the information you’ll ever need so you can build a clear picture of your users and earn those crucial five-star ratings. Deliver world-class customer service. Our logging tool enables you to target individual users and provide personalized customer support.
    Starting Price: €29 per month
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    Graylog

    Graylog

    Graylog

    Built on the Graylog Platform, Graylog Security is the industry’s best-of-breed threat detection, investigation, and response (TDIR) solution. It simplifies analysts’ day-to-day cybersecurity activities with an unmatched workflow and user experience while simultaneously providing short- and long-term budget flexibility in the form of low total cost of ownership (TCO) that CISOs covet. With Graylog Security, security analysts can: 1. Decrease risk and metrics like mean time to detect (MTTD) by aligning threat detection coverage to meet your security objectives 2. Reduce TCO with native data routing and data tiering functionality 3. Reduce key metrics like mean time to respond (MTTR) by quickly resolving the alerts that matter. Graylog Security is a robust, scalable solution that empowers analysts to detect and respond to cybersecurity threats efficiently. With integrated SOAR functionality, it automates repetitive tasks, orchestrates workflows, and accelerates incident response.
    Starting Price: $1550/month
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    IBM Netcool Operations Insight
    IBM® Netcool® Operations Insight powered with AI and Machine learning capabilities helps reduce event noise, automatically groups events related to the same problem and provides relevant context for faster resolution, allowing you to work smarter, not harder. It provides a consolidated view across your local, cloud and hybrid environments and delivers actionable insight into the performance of services and their associated dynamic network and IT infrastructures. You can now modernize and simplify your IT Operations with greater insight into highly dynamic environments, and option for containerized deployment on IBM Cloud Private.
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    SolarWinds Loggly
    SolarWinds® Loggly® is a cost-effective, hosted, and scalable full-stack, multi-source log management solution combining powerful search and analytics with comprehensive alerting, dashboarding, and reporting to proactively identify problems and significantly reduce Mean Time to Repair (MTTR). LOGGLY AT A GLANCE » Full-stack, multi-source log aggregation, log monitoring, and data analytics » Log analytics show events in context, highlight patterns, and detect anomalies for deeper insights » Highly scalable to ingest massive data volumes and help enable quick searching across large and complex environments » Spot usage patterns with application, service, and infrastructure-aligned historical analysis of user, log, and infrastructure data » Manage by exception by identifying variations from normal with powerful log formatting and analytic search capabilities
    Starting Price: Free
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    Logit.io

    Logit.io

    Logit.io

    Logit.io are a centralized logging and metrics management platform that serves hundreds of customers around the world, solving complex problems for FTSE 100, Fortune 500 and fast-growing organizations alike. The Logit.io platform delivers you with a fully customized log and metrics solution based on ELK, Grafana & Open Distro that is scalable, secure and compliant. Using the Logit.io platform simplifies logging and metrics, so that your team gains the insights to deliver the best experience for your customers. Logit.io enables you to monitor and troubleshoot your applications and infrastructure in real-time and enhance your organization's security and compliance. Allow your team to focus on what's important to them, instead of hosting, configuration and upgrading separate open source solutions. Sending your data to the platform is easy, simply use our preconfigured sources to automate the collection of your logs and metrics.
    Starting Price: From $0.74 per GB per day
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    Edge Delta

    Edge Delta

    Edge Delta

    Edge Delta is a new way to do observability that helps developers and operations teams monitor datasets and create telemetry pipelines. We process your log data as it's created and give you the freedom to route it anywhere. Our primary differentiator is our distributed architecture. We are the only observability provider that pushes data processing upstream to the infrastructure level, enabling users to process their logs and metrics as soon as they’re created at the source. We combine our distributed approach with a column-oriented backend to help users store and analyze massive data volumes without impacting performance or cost. By using Edge Delta, customers can reduce observability costs without sacrificing visibility. Additionally, they can surface insights and trigger alerts before data leaves their environment.
    Starting Price: $0.20 per GB
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    Logmanager

    Logmanager

    Logmanager

    Logmanager is a centralized log management platform enhanced with SIEM capabilities that radically simplifies responses to cyberthreats, legal compliance, and troubleshooting. By transforming diverse logs, events, metrics, and traces into actionable insights, it helps security and operations teams respond swiftly to any incident. Experience effortless self-management and customization, peerless functionality, and the flexibility to take control of your entire technology stack. – Effortlessly aggregate and standardize log files from diverse sources into one unified platform. – Enjoy rapid deployment, 140+ built-in integrations, and effortless scalability. – Get real-time visibility into security events to quickly detect, analyze, and address threats. – Use dozens of predefined security dashboards or customize your own views. – Set up alerts based on multiple trigger conditions or custom-defined rules. – Transparent pricing with no hidden fees. Pay as you go, scale as you grow.
    Starting Price: $500 per month
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    EventSentry

    EventSentry

    NETIKUS.NET ltd

    Hybrid SIEM solution combining real-time (event) log monitoring with comprehensive system health & network monitoring provides users with a complete picture of their servers and endpoints. The included security event log normalization & correlation engine with descriptive email alerts provides additional context and presents cryptic Windows security events in easy to understand reports that offer insight beyond what is available from raw events. EventSentry's NetFlow component visualizes network traffic, can detect malicious activity and offers insight into bandwith usage. Keeping track of Active Directory changes is easy with EventSentry's ADMonitor component that records all changes to AD & Group Policy objects and provides a complete user inventory to help identify obsolete accounts. Various integrations & multi-tenancy available.
    Starting Price: $85.00/one-time
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    LogicMonitor

    LogicMonitor

    LogicMonitor

    LogicMonitor’s SaaS-based observability and IT operations data collaboration platform helps ITOps, developers, MSPs and business leaders gain visibility into and predictability across the technologies that modern organizations depend on to deliver extraordinary employee and customer experiences. LogicMonitor seamlessly monitors everything from networks to applications to the cloud, empowering companies to focus less on troubleshooting and more on innovation. Bridge the gap between tech, teams, and IT with powerful real-time dashboards, network device configurations, full data center visibility, network scanning, and flexible alerting and reporting.
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    Loupe

    Loupe

    Loupe

    Know when issues happen in your application with Loupe. A logging and application monitoring solution for .NET and Java, Loupe helps software teams monitor, find, and fix errors in their applications the first time. It also gives users the visibility into events and key metrics for all applications, and offers the ability to dig deeper into specific events, sessions, users, and machines. Loupe can be deployed on-premise or as a cloud hosted solution.
    Starting Price: $25.00/month
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    Vector by Datadog
    Collect, transform, and route all your logs and metrics with one simple tool. Built in Rust, Vector is blistering fast, memory efficient, and designed to handle the most demanding workloads. Vector strives to be the only tool you need to get observability data from A to B, deploying as a daemon, sidecar, or aggregator. Vector supports logs and metrics, making it easy to collect and process all your observability data. Vector doesn’t favor any specific vendor platforms and fosters a fair, open ecosystem with your best interests in mind. Lock-in free and future proof. Vector’s highly configurable transforms give you the full power of programmable runtimes. Handle complex use cases without limitation. Guarantees matter, and Vector is clear on which guarantees it provides, helping you make the appropriate trade-offs for your use case.
    Starting Price: Free
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    Logz.io

    Logz.io

    Logz.io

    We know engineers love open source. So we supercharged the best open source monitoring tools — including ELK, Prometheus, and Jaeger, and unified them on a scalable SaaS platform. Collect and analyze your logs, metrics, and traces on one unified platform for end-to-end monitoring. Visualize your data on easy-to-use and customizable monitoring dashboards. Logz.io’s human-coached AI/ML automatically uncovers errors and exceptions in your logs. Quickly respond to new events with alerting to Slack, PagerDuty, Gmail, and other endpoints. Centralize your metrics at any scale on Prometheus-as-a-service. Unified with logs and traces. Add just three lines of code to your Prometheus config files to begin forwarding your metrics to Logz.io for storage and analysis. Quickly respond to new events by alerting Slack, PagerDuty, Gmail, and other endpoints. Logz.io’s human-coached AI/ML automatically uncovers errors and exceptions in your logs.
    Starting Price: $89 per month
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    Enginsight

    Enginsight

    Enginsight

    Enginsight is an all-in-one cybersecurity platform made in Germany, combining threat detection and defense capabilities. The features are: Automated security checks, pentesting, IDS/IPS, micro segmentation, vulnerability scans, and risk assessments. It empowers businesses of all sizes to effortlessly implement and monitor robust security strategies through an intuitive interface. Scan your systems automatically and immediately recognize the security status of your IT infrastructure. 100% self-developed (security by design) and has no dependencies on third-party tools. Permanently scan your IT environment for existing devices and create a live image of your IT infrastructure. Automatic detection and unlimited IP inventory of all network devices, as well as their classification. Enginsight provides a comprehensive solution for monitoring and securing your Windows servers, Linux servers and end devices such as Windows PCs or Linux . Start your 15 day free trial now.
    Starting Price: $12.99 per month
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    Honeycomb

    Honeycomb

    Honeycomb.io

    Log management. Upgraded. With Honeycomb. Honeycomb is built for modern dev teams to better understand application performance, debug & improve log management. With rapid query, find unknown unknowns across system logs, metrics & traces with interactive charts for the deepest view against raw, high cardinality data. Configure Service Level Objective (SLOs) on what users care about so you cut-down noisy alerts and prioritize the work. Reduce on-call toil, ship code faster and keep customers happy. Pinpoint the cause. Optimize your code. See your prod in hi-res. Our SLOs tell you when your customers are having a bad experience so that you can immediately debug why those issues are happening, all within the same interface. Use our Query Builder to easily slice and dice your data to visualize behavioral patterns for individual users and services (grouped by any dimensions).
    Starting Price: $70 per month
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    ChaosSearch

    ChaosSearch

    ChaosSearch

    Log analytics should not break the bank. Because most logging solutions use one or both of these technologies - Elasticsearch database and/ or Lucene index - the cost of operation is unreasonably high. ChaosSearch takes a revolutionary approach. We reinvented indexing, which allows us to pass along substantial cost savings to our customers. See for yourself with this price comparison calculator. ChaosSearch is a fully managed SaaS platform that allows you to focus on search and analytics in AWS S3 rather than spend time managing and tuning databases. Leverage your existing AWS S3 infrastructure and let us do the rest. Watch this short video to learn how our unique approach and architecture allow ChaosSearch to address the challenges of today’s data & analytic requirements. ChaosSearch indexes your data as-is, for log, SQL and ML analytics, without transformation, while auto-detecting native schemas. ChaosSearch is an ideal replacement for the commonly deployed Elasticsearch solutions.
    Starting Price: $750 per month
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    CruzLog

    CruzLog

    Dorado Software

    Next-gen log collection, analysis and visualization for improved troubleshooting, managing compliance, and IT security. CruzLog is a set of integrated, and flexible tools for IT administrators and operators to collect, filter, analyze, visualize, and manage network, server and application logs for issue tracking, auditing, and compliance. CruzLog adds comprehensive log collection, data management, and detailed visualization to Cruz Operations Center's (CruzOC) expansive suite of IT resource management features. Together, they provide a single console management product for managing datacenter and network operations of today's converging infrastructures. Fully integrated with Cruz Operations Center (CruzOC), infrastructure management for IT/IOT resources, results in comprehensive and automated problem resolution from a single pane-of-glass. Store, analyze, and visualize resource management data with log management to improve troubleshooting, IT security, and compliance.
    Starting Price: $1350
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    DataSet

    DataSet

    DataSet

    DataSet retains live, searchable real-time insights. Store indefinitely using DataSet-hosted or customer-managed, low-cost S3 storage. Ingest structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data faster than ever before. A limitless enterprise infrastructure for live data queries, analytics, insights, and retention, with no data schema requirements. The technology of choice for engineering, DevOps, IT, and security teams to unlock the power of data. Sub-second query performance powered by a patented parallel processing architecture. Work quicker and smarter to make better business decisions. Ingest hundreds of terabytes effortlessly. No rebalancing nodes, storage management, or resource reallocation. Scale on a limitless flexible platform. An efficient cloud-native architecture minimizes cost and maximizes output. Benefit from a predictable cost model with unmatched performance.
    Starting Price: $0.99 per GB per day
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    GoAccess

    GoAccess

    GoAccess

    GoAccess is an open source, real-time web log analyzer and interactive viewer that operates within a terminal on Unix-like systems or through a browser interface. Designed for rapid analysis, it provides immediate HTTP statistics, making it ideal for system administrators who need quick insights into server performance. The tool supports various web log formats, including those from Apache, Nginx, Amazon S3, Elastic Load Balancing, CloudFront, and Caddy, allowing users to set the log format and analyze logs effortlessly. Written in C, GoAccess requires only ncurses as a dependency, ensuring swift, millisecond-level updates. It offers customizable terminal and web-based dashboards, enabling users to tailor color schemes to their preferences. Beyond terminal output, GoAccess can generate comprehensive, self-contained real-time HTML reports, as well as JSON, facilitating analytics, monitoring, and data visualization.
    Starting Price: Free
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