# lebinh/ngxtop

Real-time metrics for nginx server

Repository: https://github.com/lebinh/ngxtop
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/ngxtop
Language: Python
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: nginx, monitoring, cli
Last push: 2026-03-02T04:38:40+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 54/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 70, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4548, "days_push": 184, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 6525, forks 475 (observed 2026-08-28T04:09:44.913071+00:00)

## What it is
ngxtop is a Python CLI tool that parses nginx access logs and displays top-like real-time metrics about incoming requests. It auto-detects log location and format, and can also parse Apache common access logs.

## Use cases
- monitor nginx server requests in real time
- find top requested paths in nginx access log
- troubleshoot web server traffic spikes
- analyze apache access logs
- see which client IPs hit my server the most
- compute average response sizes from access logs

## When to choose
- you need quick, ad-hoc, top-style insight into what's hitting your nginx server right now
- you want a lightweight pip-installable tool with no daemon or external storage
- you need flexible log format and filter/group-by options

## When to avoid
- you need long-running monitoring with dashboards, alerting, or historical data storage
- you want metrics pushed to external graphing systems like Prometheus or Grafana
- your logs are not nginx or Apache common format and you can't specify the format

## Facets
- artifact type: cli-tool
- maturity: maintenance
- function: monitoring, analytics, cli, logging
- domain: monitoring, web-development
- platform: python, cli
- tags: nginx, access-log, log-analysis, real-time-metrics, top-like, apache, devops, command-line, linux, macos

## Member repositories
- lebinh/ngxtop (main) score 54

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:44.913071+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T17:44:09.964704+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/lebinh/ngxtop (fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:44.913071+00:00, sha 329d03f14f6b)
  - registry_pypi: https://pypi.org/pypi/ngxtop/json (fetched 2026-08-29T08:40:36.920588+00:00, sha 813554472d0e)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.