parsing other log-files

[belaoulidris]

Hi

is there a way to parse other log files other then access.log, for example app.access.log ?

[vbh689]

ngxtop -l /path/to/app.access.log ?

[belaoulidris]

I have tried that @dfmcvn . it didn't work.

[vbh689]

https://imgur.com/oPtwmaL
Tried that, work well. Maybe the problem is in your log file?

[joshnabbott]

@belaoulidris This was happening to me too and my nginx config is using a custom log format, which turned out to be the issue. Check your nginx.conf file to see if you're doing the same (grep for log_format in the config directory) and if so, just pass ngxtop the config format and it works:

ngxtop -f '$remote_addr - $remote_user [$time_iso8601] "$request" $status $body_bytes_sent "$http_referer" "$http_user_agent" "$http_x_forwarded_for" "$host"' -l /path/to/access.log

[belaoulidris]

@belaoulidris This was happening to me too and my nginx config is using a custom log format, which turned out to be the issue. Check your nginx.conf file to see if you're doing the same (grep for log_format in the config directory) and if so, just pass ngxtop the config format and it works:

ngxtop -f '$remote_addr - $remote_user [$time_iso8601] "$request" $status $body_bytes_sent "$http_referer" "$http_user_agent" "$http_x_forwarded_for" "$host"' -l /path/to/access.log

Thanks, @joshnabbott that works now, indeed it was a custom log file and I had to pass the log format to get it to work.