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date = '2025-10-06T01:00:51+02:00'
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title = 'Goaccess install on NixOs'
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tags = [ "nixos","statistics" ]
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When you self-host, there comes a moment when curiosity takes over.
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Who visits my site? At what time? Which pages actually get attention?
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And, sooner or later, the big question:
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Is anyone, anywhere, really reading what I write?
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You could go for Google Analytics or Matomo — but that comes with its own baggage:
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- Questionable privacy practices,
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- Third-party scripts injected into your site,
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- Extra weight on every page,
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- And a dependency on services I don’t want.
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GoAccess, on the other hand, takes the minimalist route.
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No scripts, no tracking, no cookie banner — it reads directly from the web server logs (in my case, Caddy) and generates a clear, efficient report.
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That’s the kind of philosophy I like:
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- Privacy-friendly — nothing leaves my server, no profiling.
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- Simple — I don’t touch my site, I just process the logs.
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- Fast — one command and I instantly see who visited and how.
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- Self-hosting friendly — no database, no bloated setup.
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In short, GoAccess fits perfectly with what I look for in my homelab:
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→ Getting visibility into my services without turning it into a Rube Goldberg machine.
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⸻
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Minimal setup on NixOS
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GoAccess is available directly from the official repository.
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I just added the package and a small systemd service to generate a static report every hour:
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```
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{pkgs, ...}: {
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environment.systemPackages = with pkgs; [
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goaccess
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];
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# Service for generation the GoAccess static report
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systemd.services.goaccess-report = {
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description = "Generate GoAccess HTML report";
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serviceConfig = {
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ExecStart = "${pkgs.goaccess}/bin/goaccess /var/log/caddy/access-levr.porzh.me.log --log-format=CADDY -o /var/www/goaccess/index.html";
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};
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};
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# Timer to regénérate the report every hour
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systemd.timers.goaccess-report = {
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description = "Hourly GoAccess report generation";
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wantedBy = ["timers.target"];
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timerConfig = {
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OnCalendar = "hourly";
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Persistent = true;
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};
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};
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services.caddy = {
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virtualHosts = {
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"koum.porzh.me" = {
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extraConfig = ''
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root * /var/www/goaccess
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file_server browse
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try_files {path} {path}/ /index.html
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'';
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};
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};
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};
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}
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```
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What’s next?
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In the second part, I’ll go a bit further:
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- filtering out local network IPs,
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- generating daily, weekly, and monthly reports,
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- and explaining why I chose not to use the “live” mode.
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Because yes — even analytics deserve a bit of restraint.
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