Matomo Log Analytics is a command-line importer that turns web server access logs into tracking data understood by Matomo.

It offers a server-side route to web analytics rather than relying exclusively on JavaScript executed in a visitor’s browser. Existing log files can be processed retrospectively, while standard input can be used as part of a pipeline for more immediate ingestion. The tool is particularly useful where administrators already retain detailed access logs and want to analyse those requests using Matomo’s reporting facilities. It can automatically recognise many common formats while still accommodating installations with customised logging layouts.

This is free and open source software.

• Imports access logs produced by Nginx, Apache, IIS, Tomcat and HAProxy.
• Recognises NCSA Common, Extended and W3C Extended log formats.
• Supports structured Nginx JSON logs.
• Understands logs produced by hosting environments including OVH and Gandi virtual hosts.
• Imports Amazon CloudFront, S3 and Elastic Load Balancing logs.
• Supports streaming-media logs produced by Icecast.
• Handles log records both with and without virtual-host information.
• Automatically detects many supported input formats.
• Allows a specific format to be selected where automatic detection would be ambiguous.
• Supports custom regular expressions for unusual or site-specific log layouts.
• Ignores bots, static-file requests and error responses by default, with options to include them.
• Can use multiple parallel recorders when sending parsed hits to Matomo.
• Accepts input from standard input for integration with live logging pipelines.
• Supports credentials stored in a separate authentication configuration file instead of exposing secrets in process arguments.
• Can be automated with cron for regular processing of rotated server logs.

Website: github.com/matomo-org/matomo-log-analytics
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Developer: Matomo
License: GNU General Public License v3.0

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