Finally found the real time monitoring I was looking for…
brew install logstalgia
Beautiful pong-styled view of access log in realtime when called as follows:
tail -f /usr/local/var/log/httpd/access_log | logstalgia --sync
Ends up as a screen like this with pong balls that are the requests from the access log showing the files being accessed by category. Brilliant!!
Further, with a sequence of commands, you can push the monitor into the background and exit terminal as follows:
$ tail -f /usr/local/var/log/httpd/access_log | logstalgia --sync & $ disown $ exit
This leaves logstalgia running in a window that you can place on a desktop for easy access and monitoring. Before disown, you can run “jobs” command to see the process before disown-ing it. After, it is now missing from “jobs” list.
New add – would love sound with this.
Cool tool!