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I LOVE Goaccess and highly recommend it as well. My single complaint is the lack of ability to filter/define a date and time range. I know there is an issue for it but last time I checked it had been open for quite some time :(.

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There's a kind of a workaround. I rotate my logs with logrotate weekly, so the current week's logs are in access.log (and access.log.1) and past logs are in access.log.x.gz files. Then I run goaccess twice (once for .log and once .gz) to get both "all" and "latest" stats. It's not as flexible as a real filter, but it works for me.

Just curious ,are you using the web based UI to look at your data or the CLI? I use the web UI so I'm wondering how something like this might work with that. I'll have to poke around. Thanks for sharing!

I'm also using the web UI. I create "example.html" and "example-latest.html" with a daily cron job (the way I described) and move it into my web directory (behind a http auth).

I planned to do a write-up for a while now, I should finally get it done (my blog link is in my profile)

Thanks!

This is good feedback I can use, will implement this.

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