Nginx logs analytics x Unique Visitors

Hi!

We installed Matomo Open Source just over 30 days ago and we are evaluating it.

We are collecting the logs generated by NGINX with the configuration below:

log_format matomo
‘{“ip”: “$remote_addr”,’
‘“host”: “$host”,’
‘“path”: “$request_uri”,’
‘“status”: “$status”,’
‘“referrer”: “$http_referer”,’
‘“user_agent”: “$http_user_agent”,’
‘“length”: $bytes_sent,’
‘“generation_time_milli”: $request_time,’
'“date”: "$time_iso8601

We have noticed that the unique visitors logs for the pages we are monitoring are not correct.
Apparently for every page visited motomo is always considering a new visitor.

I attached an example image:

You can see that in a 1-week period it reports that we had 150,831 visits and 149,800 unique visitors. This number is not correct.

Is there anything we can do? Are any parameters missing from NGINX?

Hi @guila
Can you confirm if on 1-day period, the unique visitors metric is good or not?