UNIX top-like app for nginx (or Apache, if you wish) access logs.

Every so often, a poorly behaved spammer or web crawler will hit one of the websites I manage, and proceed to load the same pages over and over, causing a resource issue and possibly even a Denial of Service. I got tired of this, so I built my own tool to determine in real time who the culrprits were.

npm install -g nginxtop

This will install nginxtop into /usr/local/bin/ or somewhere else likely to be in your path.

[email protected]:dmuth/nginxtop.git
cd nginxtop

This will check out a copy of the nginxtop app to your current directory.

tail -f /var/log/nginx/access.log | nginxtop [ -n num_hosts_to_print] [-i report_interval_in_seconds]

There is a file called test.log in this directory. It contains sample log entries. To test nginxtop using it:

tail -fn100 test.log | nginxtop -n 5

You'll start to see output like this once every second:

             Nginxtop Top Hosts
===========================================
                    127.0.0.10:     14 hits
                     127.0.0.1:      7 hits
                     127.0.0.2:      6 hits
                     127.0.0.3:      6 hits
                     127.0.0.4:      5 hits

• https://bitbucket.org/dmuth/nginxtop
• https://github.com/dmuth/nginxtop

Have feedback? Want to report bugs?

Hit me up via email ([email protected]) or via many other methods listed at: http://www.dmuth.org/contact

Enjoy!