I have installed goaccess-1.0.2 along with the ncurses and the optional dependencies provided by goaccess man page on my Ubuntu 16.04 OS.
I am successfully able to parse logs with the following command: goaccess -f access.log -a. I am able to create logs into an html report with the following command goaccess -f access.log -a -o report.html.
I am not able to successfully parse data into real time html output with the following command goaccess -f access.log -o report.html --real-time-html. However, it does start to parse, but at some point it freezes. So I assume the data is to large for memory.
So I wanted to learn how to parse data to disk. I used the following command goaccess -f access.log --keep-db-files. I received the following feedback: goaccess: unrecognized option '--keep-db-files'
I thought maybe I missed dependencies, but I checked back through the goaccess man page and it doesn't seem that I am.
However, it does start to parse, but at some point it freezes. So I assume the data is to large for memory.
If you are successfully parsing the same log with goaccess -f access.log -a, then using --real-time-html shouldn't make any difference. Check your memory usage with top or take a look at dmesg.
I used the following command goaccess -f access.log --keep-db-files. I received the following feedback: goaccess: unrecognized option '--keep-db-files'
You need to compile GoAccess with btree support. To do this, you need to install TokyoCabinet and then build goaccess from source:
$ sudo apt-get install libtokyocabinet-dev
$ curl http://tar.goaccess.io/goaccess-1.0.2.tar.gz | tar xvz
$ cd goaccess-1.0.2/
$ ./configure --enable-utf8 --enable-geoip --enable-tcb=btree
$ make
$ sudo make install