How to remove AWStats component from Plesk?

Yulia Minenkova

Updated June 22, 2026 09:33

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Question

How to remove AWStats component after Plesk 18.0.79 update?

Answer

As of November 2025, AWStats is no longer being maintained by its developer. For that reason, it will be removed from Plesk installer since Plesk 18.0.79

As AWStats will be replaced with GoAccess, switch the web statistics utility for domains to GoAccess or Webalizer tool
Remove AWStats package manually from the server:

For Plesk on RPM/DEB-based systems

on CentOS/RHEL-based distributions:

# yum remove awstats

on Debian/Ubuntu-based distributions:

# apt remove --purge awstats

For Plesk for Windows

Open a PowerShell window as administrator and get installed MSI package for Awstats:

PS Get-ChildItem ` "HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall",` "HKLM:\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall" | ForEach-Object { Get-ItemProperty $_.PSPath } | Where-Object { $_.DisplayName -match "AWStats|Web ?Stat" } | Select-Object DisplayName, PSChildName, UninstallString, SystemComponent

Remove AWstats package based on UninstallString result :

PS msiexec /x "{GUID}"

Example: