Access / Error Log Monitor

Introduction

httpdmon is a command-line utility based on PHP that monitors and prints information parsed from multiple Apache logfiles in (almost) realtime.

Requirements

This software has been tested and guaranteed to work on PHP 5.3+ on a Linux (CentOS) system. In the future, a Windows version might be available.

Note that for the console colors to work on Windows, ansicon is required.

Important: The default logfile paths might not be the same on your system, in which case edit the script file accordingly.

Installation

You can use the following shell-script to install/update this script:

sudo su
F=/usr/bin/httpdmon
B=https://raw.github.com/uuf6429/httpdmon/master/
rm -f $F
rm -rf ${F}.d
wget -O $F ${B}build/httpdmon.php
echo '#!/usr/bin/php -q'|cat - $F > /tmp/out && mv -f /tmp/out $F
chmod +x $F

To download access/error log definitions, run the following command for the desired file (replace $NAME with the definition file name):

mkdir -p ${F}.d
D=$NAME
wget -O ${F}.d/$D ${B}httpdmon.d/$D

After running the above commands, you can launch the utility any time just by typing httpdmon on the command line.

Screenshot(s)

See it in action...