How do I get more statistics from Confluence?

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Summary

To get more statistics from Confluence. Confluence has several plugins that you can use for generating statistics.

Solution

In addition, Confluence has a built-in access logging mechanism, which shows who has logged in and the URL invoked. To enable it, you need to modify a couple of configuration files and restart Confluence. The traditionally generated access log can then be analyzed by one of the available access log analyzer tools such as Webalizer, Google Analytics or AwStats which can generate useful statistics.

Updated on June 10, 2025

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