An indepth analysis of the log files is great, but sometime you just want to see what is happening on your web sites at the moment. In this tutorial we will go over some of the ways and show you how to set them up.
Using apachetop
Apachetop is a very useful and small program that displays the stats for Apache as they happen. It can tell you how many requests per second are coming in, what files have been accessed in the last set amount of time, and how many times. It can also show you who is hitting the sites and where they are coming from. It can be downloaded here or installed from the ports with
Using multitail to watch the logs
Multitail is a program which shows you the tail of several files on the screen at once and automatically scrolls them up as they are updated. Just looking at the log files continously rolling by can be confusing at first, but once you get use to it its easy to pick out important information so you can figure out what is happening on the web server.
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