This tutorial will show you how to install Logtop on CentOS 7. For those of you who didn’t know, Logtop is an handy log analyzer that can show realtime statistics from any given text file. 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 realtime 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. I will show you through the step by step installation logtop in CentOS 7 server.
Install Logtop on CentOS 7
Step 1. First, you need to enable EPEL repository on your system.
1 2 3 | ## 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 dependencies.
1 2 | yuminstallgitncurses-develuthash-devel gitclonehttps://github.com/JulienPalard/logtop.git |
Dive into its directory and compile it:
1 2 3 | cdlogtop make makeinstall |
Step 3. Access Logtop.
Here are some common examples of logtop:
1 | tail-f/var/log/httpd/access_log|awk{'print $1; fflush();'}|logtop |
1 | tail-f/var/log/squid/access.log|awk{'print $1; fflush();'}|logtop |
Congratulation’s! You have successfully installed logtop. Thanks for using this tutorial for installing logtop realtime log in CentOS 7 system. For additional help or useful information, we recommend you to check the official logtop web site.
