This tutorial will show you how to install Logtop on CentOS 7. For those of you who didn’t know, Logtop is a handy log analyzer that can show real-time statistics from any given text file. A common usage example is redirecting the output of your log files to it, in order to get the top visitors of your webpages or the top hosts requesting pages through your proxy server, all of this in a real-time top list.
This article assumes you have at least basic knowledge of Linux, know how to use the shell, and most importantly, you host your site on your own VPS. The installation is quite simple and assumes you are running in the root account, if not you may need to add ‘sudo‘ to the commands to get root privileges. I will show you through the step-by-step installation of Logtop on a CentOS 7 server.
Install Logtop on CentOS 7
Step 1. First, you need to enable the EPEL repository on your system.
## RHEL/CentOS 7 64-Bit ## # wget http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/7/x86_64/e/epel-release-7-5.noarch.rpm # rpm -ivh epel-release-7-5.noarch.rpm
Step 2. Install Logtop and all dependencies.
Now we install logtop using the following command below:
yum install git ncurses-devel uthash-devel git clone https://github.com/JulienPalard/logtop.git
Dive into its directory and compile it:
cd logtop make make install
Step 3. Accessing Logtop on CentOS.
Here are some common examples of logtop:
tail -f /var/log/httpd/access_log | awk {'print $1; fflush();'} | logtop
tail -f /var/log/squid/access.log | awk {'print $1; fflush();'} | logtop
Congratulations! You have successfully installed the logtop. Thanks for using this tutorial for installing log top real-time log in CentOS 7 system. For additional help or useful information, we recommend you check the official logtop website.