apachetop(1)

✨ apachetop(1) — USER COMMANDS ✨

💖 NAME

okay bestie, apachetop is the tool that displays real-time web server statistics 👀✨ it's giving live dashboard energy 💅

🎀 SYNOPSIS

apachetop [-f filename] [-H hits | -T time] [-q] [-l] [-s segments] [-p]
[-r secs]

🦋 DESCRIPTION

okay so ApacheTop watches a logfile generated by Apache 📜 (in standard common or combined logformat) and spits out human-parsable output in realtime 🔥 no cap, it's so iconic 👑

🌸 OPTIONS

• -f logfile — pick which file to watch 📂 you can pass this option multiple times if you want to watch several files at once 🫶
• -H hits | -T time — these two are mutually exclusive 🙅‍♀️ so only pick one (or none at all) 💅 here's the tea: ApacheTop keeps a table of info about every hit it's seen, but that table can only be a finite size 😭 so you get to decide how big it's gonna be. you've got two choices:
  • use -H to say "remember <this many> hits" ✨
  • use -T to say "remember all hits in <this many> seconds" ⏱️

the default (for now) is to remember hits for 30 seconds 🕰️ but heads up, going too big (either way) makes ApacheTop use more memory and CPU time 💀 lowkey, the creator found that remembering no more than around 5000 requests works well 🎯

• -q — tells ApacheTop to keep the querystrings instead of stripping them 🧚
• -l — tells ApacheTop to lowercase all URLs 🍓 so /FOO and /foo get treated as the same and pile up the same stats 🙌
• -s segments — tells ApacheTop to only keep the first <segments> parts of the path 🛤️ trailing slashes stay if they're there, and stats get merged for each truncated url ✨
• -p — tells ApacheTop to keep the protocol (usually http://) at the front of its referrer strings 🌈 normally it removes them to make room for more useful info, but not this time 💜
• -r secs — sets the default refresh delay, in seconds ⏰

🧚 EXAMPLES

apachetop -f /var/logs/httpd/access.log

🫶 AUTHOR

Chris Elsworth <chris@cae.me.uk> 👑 the legend himself 💖

🙈 REPORTING BUGS

if something's broken, report it at: https://github.com/tessus/apachetop/issues 🐛

🌈 SEE ALSO

https://www.cae.me.uk/projects/apachetop 🦋

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bye bestie, this manpage was ate and left no crumbs 💅✨ apachetop 0.15.6, June 2015 🎀💜