Rhit reads your nginx log files (even gzipped), does some basic analysis and tells you about it in pretty tables in your console, storing and polluting nothing.

It lets you filter hits by dates, or by patterns on referers and paths.

And it's fast enough (about one second per million lines) so you can iteratively try queries to build your insight.

Installation

You need the Rust toolchain. Do

cargo install rhit

Rhit is only tested on linux.

Basic Usage

If rhit is on the server, and the logs are at their usual location:

rhit

(you may have to prefix with sudo to read the files in /var/log)

Tell rhit what files to open:

rhit ~/trav/nginx-logs

Filtering

Filter on paths

rhit -p download

Filter on paths with a regular expression

rhit -p "^/blog/.*broot"

Filter on referer

rhit -r reddit

As for the path, you may use a regular expression.

Only show a specific day

rhit -d 12/25

If the log contains several years, you need to precise it, eg rhit -d 2020/12/25. Symmetrically, you may omit the month if it's not ambiguous: rhit -d 25.

Only show a period:

rhit -d 2020/12/25-2021/01/03

Filter by status

The syntax is quite versatile:

rhit -s 404
rhit -s 5xx
rhit -s 3xx,410-421
rhit -s 301-305

Combine filters

Choose what to show

The displayed tables (all by default) can be chosen with the -t argument.

For example to only show remote adresses and paths, use:

rhit -t addr,paths

(use rhit --help for the complete list)

Table lengths is decided with the -l argument. Use rhit -l 0 to have just a few lines in the various tables, and rhit -l 5 for huge tables. Default value is 1.