Apache

View Realtime Requests Per Second From Log

Added by on January 28th, 2009, filed under Apache, PHP

so you want to view the number of requests to your webserver per second. here’s a quick and easy php script that you can run from command line.

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while(true){
    echo exec('cat /var/log/httpd/access_log | wc -l') . "n";
    sleep(1);
  }

it isn’t perfect, but it will work for doing some basic troubleshooting. just hit ctrl+c to terminate.

and if you want to simulate a bunch of request so you can watch the num go up and down, here’s a script to help:

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while(true) {
  exec('wget yourdomain.com');
  unlink('index.html');
}

About the Author: Joshua McGinnis

Joshua is a web designer and developer for Intuit, Inc. His other interests include guitar, photography, mycology, amateur chemistry, WWII movies and his beautiful wife Catherine.

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