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Hello Friend, In this post I am going to explain, how you can check the traffic level on your website using command line on your virtual and dedicated server. If you want to check what is going on your website and server, Apache logs give you more information. Every visitor request which goes through Apache server. It logged into access log with detail of visitor activity.
Checking number of request by the time
The best method is quick overview of your website traffic is to check how frequently requests are coming on the server. In this post I will explain how you can check the number of request per minute,per hour and per day.
Login to server using ssh
| #ssh -i /root/key/my_ssh.key [email protected] |
After login go to your access log location. My Apache access log location is “/var/log/httpd/access.log”.
| #cd /var/log/httpd/ |
Than run the following command to view the latest Apache access log.
| # ls –larth
total 22M drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Nov 20 01:01 . drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 4.0K Dec 21 2010 .. -rw-rw-r– 1 root root 0 Oct 4 2015 ssl_error_log -rw-rw-r– 1 root root 0 Dec 27 2015 ssl_access_log -rw-rw-r– 1 root root 2.7M Nov 21 21:16 error_log -rw-rw-r– 1 root root 5.9M Nov 21 21:16 access_log |
Check request/hits per day
Run the below command to check the request per day with the help of Apache access log.
| # awk ‘{print $4}’ access_log | cut -d: -f1 | uniq –c |
You will get something like below:
| 3 [07/Nov/2016
4024 [08/Nov/2016 3474 [09/Nov/2016 3654 [10/Nov/2016 2627 [11/Nov/2016 2172 [12/Nov/2016 1327 [13/Nov/2016 2808 [14/Nov/2016 4426 [15/Nov/2016 2033 [16/Nov/2016 1034 [17/Nov/2016 579 [18/Nov/2016 507 [19/Nov/2016 1267 [20/Nov/2016 2979 [21/Nov/2016 |
Here :
awk ‘{print $4}’ access_log :- We are using awk command to print the 4th column form Apache access log which is time-stamp.
cut -d: -f1 | uniq –c :- We are using cut command with –d and -f to set the colon : and grep the field to show the first before delimiter.
Check request/hits per hour
Run the below command to check the request per hour.
| #grep “08/Nov” access_log | cut -d[ -f2 | cut -d] -f1 | awk -F: ‘{print $2″:00″}’ | sort -n | uniq –c |
You will get something like below:
| 34 00:00
1417 01:00 828 02:00 181 03:00 465 04:00 481 05:00 412 06:00 5 07:00 2 09:00 1 10:00 17 11:00 2 12:00 1 13:00 18 15:00 1 16:00 16 19:00 16 20:00 2 21:00 125 23:00 |
Please see the man page of grep,cut,awk and sort for more detail.
Check request/hits per minute
Run the below command to check the request per hour.
| #grep “08/Nov/2016:01″ access_log | cut -d[ -f2 | cut -d] -f1 | awk -F: ‘{print $2”:”$3}’ | sort -nk1 -nk2 | uniq -c | awk ‘{ if ($1 > 10) print $0}’ |
You will get something like below:
| 17 01:01
14 01:10 13 01:12 28 01:14 52 01:15 11 01:16 14 01:21 25 01:23 14 01:24 89 01:26 52 01:27 70 01:28 79 01:29 40 01:30 13 01:31 77 01:32 34 01:33 36 01:34 98 01:35 21 01:36 26 01:37 13 01:38 12 01:39 13 01:40 12 01:41 13 01:42 12 01:43 15 01:44 89 01:45 46 01:46 19 01:48 13 01:49 16 01:50 22 01:51 41 01:52 17 01:53 14 01:54 14 01:55 30 01:56 67 01:57 61 01:58 15 01:59 |
Please see the man page of grep,cut,awk and sort for more detail.
Now you can see the traffic of level on your website per day, per hour and per minute with the help of Apache access log.
I hope this article will be helpful to you to find the level of traffic on your website. If you have any queries and problem please comment in comment section.
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