Parsing Web Server Logs

Published January 02, 2017

This is assuming your webserver log is access.log.

Extract unique IP addresses from the webserver log:

cat access.log | awk '{print $1}' | uniq

Count number of unique IP addresses from log:

cat access.log | awk '{print $1}' | uniq | wc -l

List the IP addresses of users using iPhones:

cat access.log | grep -i iphone | awk '{print $1}' | uniq | sort

Count number of IP addresses of visitors who have a 444 error:

grep '444 0' access.log | awk '{print $1}' | sort -n | uniq -c | sort -n

List and sort user-agent strings uniquely:

awk -F"\"" '{print $6}' access.log | sort | uniq -dc | sort -nr

List top 25 IP addresses that have accessed my website:

awk '{print $1}' access.log | sort -n | uniq -c | sort -n | tail -25

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Last Updated: January 02, 2017.     This post was originally written on June 01, 2009.