<b>GoAccess and friends: real-time log dashboards without a stack</b>

<b>GoAccess and friends: real-time log dashboards without a stack</b>
For when you want a live view, not a data warehouse.

🔗 <b>GoAccess official docs</b> — single binary, terminal or HTML dashboard, parses combined format out of the box. The benchmark for zero-setup.
🔗 <b>Allan Barizo's GoAccess + geoip tutorial</b> — adds country breakdown so you can spot scraper farms by region.
★ <b>Pick of the week — Gerardo Orellana's custom log-format guide</b> (GoAccess author) — how to write a <code>--log-format</code> string for any weird Nginx or CDN log. Stops the "token not found" frustration cold.
🔗 <b>lnav (Log File Navigator)</b> — underrated TUI that auto-detects formats and does SQL over logs. Great for ad-hoc digging.

Takeaway: GoAccess for the live wall-display, lnav for interactive spelunking. Neither needs a database.