Simple Apache Access Log Analysis

This post was originally published on It Broke And iFixit.

Although there exist excellent tools for doing full log analysis, sometimes you just want to quickly pull out a little information. I recently found myself wanting to parse a section of our Apache access logs and find IPs consistently hitting the same URLs over and over. This lead to a line of awk, sort, uniq and grep chained together with pipes; since that didn’t handle variations very well, it’s now a line of awk, sort, uniq and grep chained together with pipes and wrapped in a little bit of Ruby. :)

Here is the Github gist.