Command Line Monitoring

whatg · 10-31-2010, 03:40 PM

Hi, this just popped into my head- is it possible to monitor web traffic (in any way) to your website through the command line. Or is this just wishful thinking?

Thanks,

Grahame

Stooshie · 11-01-2010, 01:20 PM

If you go to the log files ("/home/apache/logs/" I think?) and do a "tail -f xxxxxx" on the access log file, you should be able to see it in real time.

120 · 11-01-2010, 06:49 PM

IPTRAF is pretty neat too:

http://iptraf.seul.org/

whatg · 11-03-2010, 12:15 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Stooshie

If you go to the log files ("/home/apache/logs/" I think?) and do a "tail -f xxxxxx" on the access log file, you should be able to see it in real time.

Thanks for the reply, sorry I wasn't able to reply sooner. Your advice was really helpful! Five stars *****

Stooshie · 11-03-2010, 05:05 PM

No probs whatg. Glad I could help.