Loghound 1.9: Leave Your Own Visits Out, and See Today, Yesterday or 2 Days Ago

Loghound, the free and open-source traffic analyser that runs on your own server and keeps what it learns in your own Opensolr indexes, stops counting you. The person who checks the dashboard most is usually the person who owns the site, and every one of those visits used to land in the numbers they were checking.

01 Leave yourself out, by email

If your site already tells the beacon who is signed in, through data-ident, add your address in Settings, Exclusions, with the field set to Signed-in email. From then on, a beacon that arrives carrying that address excludes the whole visit it belongs to, on both planes: the beacon is not stored, the access-log reader writes nothing more of that visit, and the requests it had already written before the beacon arrived are deleted within a minute.

• An exact address, not a pattern. Matching ignores case, and a rule can cover every website or a single one.
• Only the visit that beacon belongs to. Nobody else on your network is touched, and a visit is only excluded by a beacon from one of your allowlisted sites whose origin matches.
• Your part is the beacon. It has to run in your browser, so switch off any blocker for your own site; without it, Loghound has nothing to match.

02 Today, Yesterday and 2 days ago

The duration selector now opens with three calendar days, ahead of the rolling windows it already had. Today runs from midnight to now; Yesterday and 2 days ago are whole days, and their charts and comparisons stay inside the day instead of running into this morning. Midnight is the one in the timezone you set for the panel, not UTC.

Today is now the default duration. A duration you picked before is remembered as it was. Already running Loghound? Upgrading covers the pull and the restart.