🕵️ Beast Visitor Tracker Bundle

A modern, developer-friendly, privacy-aware Symfony bundle for tracking, analyzing, and auditing traffic to your app or site — with zero JavaScript, no cookies, and full CLI access.

Built for privacy-first analytics, sysadmin diagnostics, devops monitoring, and marketing insights — from a single log source.

Note: This tool is not designed to replace Google Analytics or enterprise-grade analytics suites. It shines in the early stages of development, during MVP testing, or in debugging phases where performance insights, traffic logs, and CLI-driven analytics are more valuable than dashboards. It prioritizes simplicity, speed, and visibility for developers and teams.

✨ Features

🚀 Features 🧾 File-Based Logging Tracks each request in structured .log files — no database needed.

• ✅ Rich Visitor Metadata Captures:
  • IP address (anonymized if enabled)
  • Browser, OS, device type
  • Referrer, UTM parameters
  • Country, city, ISP (via optional geo API)
  • Auth status, route name, HTTP status
  • Request duration, memory usage, response size
  • Bot detection and unique visitor fingerprinting
• ⚙️ CLI-First Analytics Everything runs from the Symfony CLI — no external dashboards, no browser needed.
• 📊 Purpose-Driven Tools Tailored commands for:
  • Sysadmin: detect warnings, high memory usage, and timeouts
  • DevOps: status code trends, duration spikes, CDN usage
  • Marketing: campaign UTM performance and visitor source summaries
  • Developers: route usage, controller profiling
• 📈 Real-Time Monitoring Stream logs live using visitor:tail and analyze hot traffic without delay.
• 🧠 Smart Aggregation Group by route, URI, hour, date, browser, country, UTM source, and more.
• 🔒 Privacy & Compliance Ready
  • No cookies or sessions
  • IP masking and optional geolocation
  • Consent-free operation (GDPR/CCPA friendly by default)
• 📂 Minimal Setup, Zero Overhead Plug-and-play with Symfony. Just install and go — logging starts immediately.

🚀 Installation

composer require beast/visitor-tracker-bundle

If you're not using Symfony Flex, manually register the bundle:

// config/bundles.php
return [
    Beast\VisitorTrackerBundle\BeastVisitorTrackerBundle::class => ['all' => true],
];

// config/packages/beast_visitor_tracker.yaml
beast_visitor_tracker:
  geo_enabled: false         # Disable geo API calls for privacy
  ip_anonymize: true         # Mask last part of IP address
  log_dir: '%kernel.project_dir%/var/visitor_tracker/logs'

🧠 How It Works

Every main request triggers the logger:

Beast\VisitorTrackerBundle\EventSubscriber\VisitorLoggerSubscriber

...and at termination, enriches the last matching log entry with:

• request duration
• memory usage
• HTTP status
• route name
• content type
• authentication status

Log entries are stored per day:

var/visitor_tracker/logs/YYYY-MM-DD.log

Example entry:

{
    "date": "2025-07-27 11:31:25",
    "ip": "127.0.0.1",
    "uri": "\/serial-number?utm_source=facebook&utm_campaign=summer",
    "method": "GET",
    "user_agent": "Mozilla\/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit\/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome\/136.0.0.0 Safari\/537.36",
    "visitor_id": "574136fe4bbfcbdf48c98e38e50604cbd448e9d9",
    "referrer": null,
    "referrer_domain": null,
    "referrer_path": null,
    "country": "unknown",
    "city": null,
    "isp": null,
    "browser": "Chrome",
    "os": "Linux",
    "device": "desktop",
    "is_bot": false,
    "utm": {
        "utm_source": "facebook",
        "utm_campaign": "summer"
    },
    "locale": "en-US",
    "duration_ms": 21.02,
    "status_code": 200,
    "route": "app_serialnumber_index",
    "memory_usage_bytes": 4194304,
    "auth": "anon",
    "content_type": "text\/html; charset=UTF-8",
    "response_size_bytes": 45423,
    "php_warnings": {
        "notice": 0,
        "warning": 0,
        "deprecated": 0,
        "error": 0
    }
}

🧪 CLI Commands

visitor:tail

Real-time traffic monitor

Stream new visitor logs as they happen.

bin/console visitor:tail --follow

Options:

--filter=bot|utm|referrer|new|return
--date=YYYY-MM-DD
--preview=20

visitor:metric

Internal system metrics from logs

Summarizes durations, memory, payload, response size, errors, and performance.

bin/console visitor:metric --from=-7days

Great for: performance profiling and trend detection.

visitor:trend

Track visitor trends over time

Useful for spotting traffic spikes or drop-offs.

bin/console visitor:trend --type=requests|bots|utm --days=30

visitor:sysadmin

Health check for your app/server

Scans for:

• PHP warnings & errors
• Memory spikes
• Long-running requests
• Unexpected status codes

bin/console visitor:sysadmin

visitor:devops

Operational diagnostics

Breaks down:

• CDN or URI usage patterns
• Route-level performance
• Traffic load by hour
• Status code trends

bin/console visitor:devops

visitor:snapshot

Point-in-time export

Generate a snapshot JSON of visitor data for sharing, archiving, or analysis.

bin/console visitor:snapshot --output=stats.json

📈 visitor:cleanup

Full dashboard for the last 30 days.

php bin/console visitor:stats

Includes:

• Total / unique / returning / bot visitors
• Hourly & daily charts
• Country, city, browser, device, OS, UTM, referrer stats
• Top visited pages
• Weekly aggregates

💡 Use Cases

• Lightweight, private web analytics
• Monitoring APIs/microservices
• Campaign/UTM effectiveness analysis
• Debugging slow or memory-hungry routes
• GDPR-safe internal dashboards

🔐 Privacy & Compliance

We collect only:

• IP (anonymized if enabled)
• User-Agent
• UTM/referrer
• Route/URI & status
• Duration & memory usage (no personal data)

✅ No cookies, sessions, or user tracking unless you add it manually. ✅ Fully usable without consent banners. ❗ Geolocation via ipapi.co can be disabled.

👤 Author

Michael Holm Kristensen Part of the Clubmaster GmbH ecosystem 🔗 github.com/hollodk

📄 License

MIT — Use it freely, fork it proudly.