If you are looking for a fast way for live monitoring your server http(s) traffics here's a tool that is easy to install : ngxtop
All you need is to have python and pip installed on your system :
apt-get install python python-pip
And then use pip to install the tool
pip install ngxtop
If the installation fails, there is a big chance that you need to update the setup tools as well and try again :
pip install --upgrade setuptools
pip install ngxtop
After the tool is installed you can type ngxtop. The tool assumes you didn't modify the access log in your nginx configuration (/var/log/nginx/access.log) and run successfully.
Next you can visit one page of your server and you should see live update in the terminal.
More details on the github
Further
If you search for a more advanced tool you should also consider checking goaccess. goaccess is more like a log analyzer, it is also real-time but the stats is made from all the data in the log versus ngxtop that starts making stats from the moment you run the command.
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