Loghound — traffic analytics
It used to be this single page. It is a separate product — a separate repository, its own installer, its own panel — so it is now a full documentation set of its own: opensolr.com/loghound-docs. This page is kept so that older links still work.
Loghound is an open-source, MIT-licensed traffic analyser for Apache, nginx and Caddy access logs. It reads the logs your web server already writes, correlates them with an optional JavaScript beacon, and stores everything in two Opensolr indexes it provisions for you — so an Opensolr account is required, and the free plan is enough to start.
It exists to do two things that conventional analytics does badly or not at all: detect headless Chrome on rotating residential proxies, which every other analytics product counts as human traffic, and measure how long a visitor was actually reading rather than how long a tab existed.
Where everything went
| If you came here for… | It is now at |
|---|---|
| What Loghound is, and the three-plane model | What Loghound is · The three-plane model |
| Installing it | Requirements · From a shell · From a browser |
| The two Opensolr indexes it provisions | Why an account is required · Provisioning · Joining a pair you have |
| Log sources and the recommended LogFormat | Log sources · The recommended LogFormat |
| The beacon, identity, search terms, another server | Installing the beacon · Every option · Identity · A site on another server |
| The four timing numbers | The four time numbers |
| How the scoring works | The fingerprint cluster · The scoring rules · False positives |
| Signing in, and two-factor | Signing in & two-factor |
| The panel, view by view | How the panel works, then a page for each view |
| Analytics over your own Opensolr indexes | Index analytics · Query analysis · Who is querying |
| Privacy, retention and how history is sized to your plan | Privacy · Retention & disk |
| Running it, the commands, uninstalling | Running it · Command reference · Uninstalling |
Read the full Loghound documentation →
Source, issues and releases: github.com/phpcip/loghound. Product overview: opensolr.com/loghound.