Monitor Apache site traffic with Apachetop

apachetop is a command line tool like top, that shows traffic on a web site. It used apache access log to show th stats. This will be useful to monitor a web sites traffic in real time.

cd /usr/local/src
wget https://github.com/HostOnNet/apachetop/archive/master.zip
unzip master.zip
cd apachetop-master
./configure --with-logfile=/var/log/httpd/access_log
make
make install

If you need to set path to apache log file, configure with

./configure --with-logfile=/path/to/apache/log/file.log

On CentOS

yum install apachetop

On Ubuntu/Debian

apt install apachetop

Running apachetop with custom log file location

apachetop -f /path/to/apache/log/file.log