How do you monitor webserver traffic?

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  • AWStats

    AWStats Log Analyzer project (official sources)

  • AWStats or Webaliser are two really good ones for parsing Apache logs, but I've always loved Matomo for projects where I need more than just webserver logs.

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  • AWStats or Webaliser are two really good ones for parsing Apache logs, but I've always loved Matomo for projects where I need more than just webserver logs.

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  • mtail

    extract internal monitoring data from application logs for collection in a timeseries database

  • mtail is an option if you have a set number of URLs. You'll need to either scrape the data it provides with prometheus, or send it to collectd, statsd, graphite, etc.

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