nginx access.log only kept for a day

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I'm using goaccess on Ubuntu Server 12.04 to view my analytics on my web server. I just run the following utility:

goaccess -f /var/log/nginx/access.log

However I'm only seeing one days worth of data. I was wondering if there are some default setting within nginx to manage this? I've read a little about log file rotation but that really isn't a problem for me at the moment. It appears something is keeping the access.log from showing more than a day.

Can't seem find anything in the nginx documentation to play with some settings.

Your quite right there are, thanks @german_guy is there a way to merge these all together so I can phrase them? They are .gz files? — calabi, Mar 25 '14 at 15:51

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 02 '14 at 14:26

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You can also run it as:

zcat -f access.log* | goaccess

to avoid creating a new file.

answered Apr 02 '14 at 14:26

Kayla

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Full comand for me was `sudo zcat -f /var/log/nginx/access.log* | goaccess --log-format=COMBINED --ignore-crawlers` – Harley Jul 23 '19 at 23:06

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 25 '14 at 16:05

The issue was log file rotation as @german_guy pointed out. To get all the output I copied all the access.log* files out and into another directory then un-compressed merged them together using:

gunzip access.log*
cat access.log* > new.file

Which I then ran with goaccess

goaccess -f ~/new.file

Now I get all the analytics data.

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Nov 08 '19 at 11:14

Another option if you are using Nginx would be to use their free monitoring tool nginx amplify. This is simple to setup and allows a good deal of customisation by metric and time period and has the advantage that you don't need to keep manually running commands as it's browser based once installed.

nginx access.log only kept for a day

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