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> You can take your server logs and then what will a non technical person do with them? Not much.

Can this analysis be done offline? Data collection can be done without third-party accesses, and any analysis on that data can be done offline using separate tools, isn't it? That removes the third-party script surface of attack.



Nobody has built a useful tool to do this. So, no, not in practice.


There are tools for analyzing server logs. I played with a CLI tool for that, but here's first result for regular folks from Google search on "server logs analytics":

https://matomo.org/feature-overview/


Matomo is the new name of Piwik; it's self-hosted, but JavaScript based, not just a server log processor.


Apparently you can use it for just server logs; see: https://matomo.org/faq/log-analytics-tool/#faq_16303.




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