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: Ignore "HTTP 1.0 OPTIONS" request in GoAccess? We are analyzing website access with GoAccess web log analyzer. Here's what we see under Requested Files (URLs): > 2 - Requested Files (URLs)

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We are analyzing website access with GoAccess web log analyzer. Here's what we see under Requested Files (URLs):

> 2 - Requested Files (URLs) Total: 366/66721

Hits Vis. % Bandwidth Mtd Proto Data
----- ---- ----- ----------- ------- -------- ----
16884 9 8.24% 0.0 B OPTIONS HTTP/1.0 *
5342 3584 2.61% 100.59 MiB GET HTTP/1.1 /
2821 2166 1.38% 8.41 MiB GET HTTP/1.1 /w/load.php?debug=false&lang=en&m
2692 2050 1.31% 48.36 MiB GET HTTP/1.1 /w/load.php?debug=false&lang=en&m
1990 1824 0.97% 96.18 MiB GET HTTP/1.1 /w/load.php?debug=false&lang=en&m
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Apache's polling of child processes is skewing the results of the analysis. Its also skewing the Visitor Hostname IPs, Operating Systems, Browsers, etc.

How do we tell GoAccess to ignore the Apache polls?

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@Rambettina238

You can run GoAccess with -e, for example:

goaccess -f /var/log/apache2/access.log -e ::1

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