Allow hiding specific URLs

[mpldr]

Hi, I have a project that uses a heartbeat to index.php?ajax-proxy=… which I'd like to remove from being part of the evaluation, since right now the Top Requested files pretty much consist of nothing but ajax-proxy Is it possible to define some "StartsWith" Patterns that can be excluded?

"formal" Feature-Request

The Problem

• some websites send requests that shouldn't necessarily be part of the analysis
• it would be better to just "hide" them instead of not logging them

Proposed Solution

• adding some "simple" exclusion conditions like:
  • Starts with
  • Contains
  • Ends with

[allinurl]

Thanks for suggesting that. I'm curious, is there a reason why you would like to hide them but still count them? I was thinking you could do some pre-processing to ignore those requests, e.g., grep -v 'index.php?ajax-proxy' access.log | goaccess - --log-format=COMBINED

[mpldr]

why you would like to hide them but still count them

For one they are obviously valid requests, secondly they can be very interesting to find out general activity.