Analytics Log Agent

This is an analytics log agent for Matomo, running on the server you want to have log data from, to send to your Matomo instance.

There is also an integration for the Matomo plugin Agent that could be used for cases when you want to have reports for errors, like 404 logs.

This agent is in it's early stages, and at this point NOT recommended for production use.

Usage

The idea of the usages of this agent are:

• If you can't use normal JavaScript tracking for you website, you instead use the logs and tail them and send the data to Matomo. (If you want to send server logs by daily batches, you instead use Log Analytics).
• Track user agents that doesn't use a browser to visit your sites - like some bots and people using command lines tool to scrap your website.
• Generate test data for you Matomo with logs generated from something like Dummy Log Creator.

For now, you need to build the agent manually, and then you can add in your preferred path. A config file is required, and as default it should be placed /opt/log-agent/config.toml, you can override this when starting the Matomo agent with the -config flag pointing to path to the file, like:

./log-agent --config /usr/local/bin/log-agent-config.toml

The file config.toml.example kan be used as a start for your config.tml file.

Config

Flags

Flag	Type	Default	Description
--config	string	/opt/log-agent/config.toml	Path to the configuration file.
--catlog	bool	false	Simulate cat command for a log file. If set to true, processes log file in one go.
--rps	int	1	Requests per second limit for catlog mode. Controls the rate of log file processing.
--matomo-url	string	""	Matomo URL. Overrides the value set in the config file.
--token-auth	string	""	Matomo authentication token. Overrides the value set in the config file.
--site-id	string	""	Matomo site ID. Overrides the value set in the config file.
--plugin	bool	false	If using the Matomo Agent plugin, set this flag to enable plugin functionality.
--downloads	bool	true	Enable or disable download tracking. Overrides the config file setting.
--log-format	string	""	Log format. Valid options: nginx, apache, or csv. Overrides the config file setting.
--log-path	string	""	Path to the log file. Overrides the value set in the config file.
--user-agents	string	""	Comma-separated list of user agents to track. Overrides the config file setting.
--log-level	string	""	Log level. Valid options: debug, info, warn, or error. Overrides the config file setting.
--log-file	string	""	Path to the agent's log file. Overrides the value set in the config file.
--collect-title	bool	false	Collect titles from log URLs
--title-domain	string	""	Override domain in log or csv with this domain for getting title (this is not implemented yet)

Each flag can be used to override corresponding values in the config.toml file, allowing you to customize the agent's behavior via command-line arguments.

File

Options for config.toml:

Config	Description	Default	Required
matomo.url	URL to your Matomo instances	-	Yes
matomo.site_id	Site id in Matomo to track to	1	Yes
matomo.token_auth	Token auth to your Matomo instance	-	Yes
matomo.plugin	If you want to use the Agent plugin in Matomo	false	No
matomo.downloads	If you want to track downloads	true	No
log.log_format	Which log format the log has	-	Yes
log.log_path	Path to the log to tail	-	Yes
log.user_agents	Array of User Agents that should be tracked	-	No
agent.log_level	Log level for Matomo agent	-	Yes
agent.log_file	File to log to	-	Yes
title.collect_titles	Enrich tracking with query URL in log for HTML title	false	No
title.title_domain	Override domain in log or csv with this domain for getting title (this is not implemented yet)	-	No
title.cache_file	Path to cache file	/tmp/matomo_agent-url_title_cache.txt	No

Log format

Apache and Nginx

Apache and Nginx log format supported is the combined log format, that matches this regex:

(?P<ip>\S+) - - \[(?P<time>[^\]]+)\] "(?P<method>\S+) (?P<url>\S+) (?P<protocol>\S+)" (?P<status>\d+) (?P<size>\d+) "(?P<referrer>[^"]*)" "(?P<user_agent>[^"]*)"

CSV

If using CSV file, the format need to be:

timestamp, req_method, req_host, req_uri, resp_status, client_ip, req_referer, req_user_agent

Build

go build -o log-agent .

Install

Copy config.toml.example to default (or your preferred destination), /opt/log-agent/config.toml Add settings for the agent in config.toml, run log-agent.

./log-agent

config.toml could also be placed in another place, then you need to start the agent with the --config flag.

./log-agent --config /PATH/TO/YOUR/config.toml

Tail or cat

Tail

Just start like:

./log-agent [--config config.toml]

Cat

As an option you could read the logfile from start to end, if you have a log file that is not updated anymore, to do that you could run it the agent like:

./log-agent --config config.toml --catlog --rps 5

The catlog flag makes the agent run just once, and the rps flag is to set how many requests per second if needed, default is 1.

We do though recommend using Matomos official Log Analytics for this.

Todos

• To configure to track bots only, this could be used: https://github.com/robicode/device-detector/tree/main
• Add releases https://github.com/goreleaser/goreleaser

Linting

golangci-lint run

License

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