'''Generating reports'''
''nb. Either run as root, or use sudo to be able to read the log file.'' Reports are not generated by default. The system administrator can run real-time reports on-demand (visible in the console) and can also setup HTML reporting. Meza uses a custom log format (nicknamed 'combined') that is NOT the standard 'combined' format. We supply a customized configuration file (<code>/etc/goaccess/my.goaccess.conf</code>) so that you can report on your logs without any changes to your Web Server logging. <syntaxhighlight lang="bash"># use default config file (will NOT work with default QualityBoxdue to the log format)
tail -1000 /var/log/apache2/access_log | goaccess -p /etc/goaccess/goaccess.conf -
