ngxtop work with buffered access_log ?

[centminmod]

Hi I am playing around with ngxtop for my Centmin Mod Nginx project https://gist.github.com/centminmod/d613128cdb9eed86c9ec and was wondering do ngxtop live stats work with buffered access_log files ?

I can not see any live stats but when i use --no-follow i do see previously logged data

thanks

[lebinh]

Ngxtop parse your access log for metrics, so if your log is buffered then it can only parse them after the log has been flushed to disk, which mean there will be delay for stats. That delay depends on how frequents the buffer is filled up, so you can either shrink the buffer size or disable it if you want real-time data.

[centminmod]

@lebinh thanks for the explanation :)