View Realtime Requests Per Second From Log

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.

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:

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