nginx-log-stats 1.34.0

Search through NGINX logs with advanced filters and support for displaying analytics about your selected log entries

NGINX Log Stats

A multi-threaded, deep-search capable, full-featured, and intelligent NGINX log parser

Install

Run this command to install the package from pip: pip install nginx-log-stats

Usage

To run this, use ngxav.

If you're using the default NGINX Log Format, this should be working right out of the box. You can use the following flags to search using different parameters:

• -f/--file - REQUIRED, specifcy the path to the file you wish to search through
• -s/--search- OPTIONAL, either REGEX or text to match lines
• -b/--start_date- OPTIONAL, find all logs within certain timespan (use time format 08/Nov/2023:08:04:05)
• -e/--end_date- OPTIONAL, find all logs within certain timespan (use time format 08/Nov/2023:08:04:05)
• -w/--host- OPTIONAL, match for specific host (like site.domain.com)
• -r/--request- OPTIONAL, find all entries for specific request (like GET /home/)
• -st/--status- OPTIONAL, find all entries for specific HTTP status code (like 200, 404, etc)
• -u/--unique - OPTIONAL, only show latest request of each IP address within log selection
• -a/--analytics - OPTIONAL, show a analytical view of your log selection, instead of just the raw logs
• -l/--large <n> - OPTIONAL, show the n-largest request bodys of log selection
• -ref/--referer - OPTIONAL, only show requests that have specifced http referer
• -sa/--session_analytics - OPTIONAL, show session-based analytics (a session is a series of user activity (requests) within a specific timespan between interactions)
• --uaos - OPTIONAL, see all requests from devices running specific OS, from useragent
• --bot - OPTIONAL, Show requests from bots (determined from user agent)
• --nobot - OPTIONAL, Show requests NOT from bots (determined from user agent)
• --mobile - OPTIONAL, Show requests from mobile (determined from user agent)
• --nomobile - Show requests NOT from mobile (determined from user agent)'
• --ua_browser - see all requests from specific browser
• -t/--threads - specify how many threads to use, will be all by default
• -c/----conservememory - specify wether or not to read files line by line to conserve memory (can't use with analytic commands)

Example Run: ngxav -f access.log -a

Output:

===~ LOG SELECTION STATS ~===
Total Requests: 70,759
Requests Per Min: 13.07
Average Body Transfer Speed: 3.05 MB/S
Total Body Size: 30MB

Top 5 Requests:
-GET /mtaAPI ~ 16,960
-GET /get-trains ~ 13,969
-GET /tripUpdatesAPI ~ 11,374
-GET / ~ 7,526
-GET /assets/TimelineIcon.svg ~ 5,594

Top 5 Hosts:
-api.marcmap.app ~ 29,795
-amtrak-api.marcmap.app ~ 18,942
-marcmap.app ~ 7,631
-localhost ~ 6,597
-quinnpatwardhan.com ~ 3,013

Top 5 IP Addresses:
<Redacted>

Example Run: ngxav -f access.log -sa

SESSION STATS
==============
3200 Total Unique Sessions
0.0003125 Avg Requests Per Session
0min Avg Session Length

MOST COMMON PATHS
=================
- 'amtrak-api.marcmap.app' (1191)
- 'api.marcmap.app' (439)
- 'amtrak-api.marcmap.app' -->  'marcmap.app' -->  'amtrak-api.marcmap.app' (373)
- 'quinnpatwardhan.com' (189)
- 'marcmap.app' (186)

Contribute/Issues

We welcome contributions and bug reports/issues! Just submit a pull request to the repo - Github

Dependencies

• user-agents

License (MIT)

MIT License

Copyright (c) [2023] [Quinn Patwardhan]

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