How to View Access Logs in HestiaCP

Prerequisites

Before viewing access logs, make sure you have:

• SSH access to your VPS
• Domain added in HestiaCP

Access Log Locations

For Apache:

/home/admin/logs/example.com/access.log

For Nginx:

/home/admin/logs/example.com/access_nginx.log

View Access Logs via HestiaCP Web Interface

Step 1: Log in to HestiaCP

https://YOUR_SERVER_IP:8083

Step 2: Navigate to WEB Section

Click on WEB → your domain.

Step 3: Go to Statistics Tab

Click on Statistics tab to view basic request data.

View Access Logs via SSH

ssh hxroot@YOUR_SERVER_IP -p 22

View last 50 lines:

tail -50 /home/admin/logs/example.com/access.log

Follow in real-time:

tail -f /home/admin/logs/example.com/access.log

Analyze Access Logs

Find top IP addresses accessing your site:

cat access.log | awk '{print $1}' | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn | head -10

Find top requested pages:

cat access.log | awk '{print $7}' | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn | head -20

Count total requests per day:

cat access.log | awk '{print $4}' | cut -d: -f1 | sort | uniq -c

Find response codes:

cat access.log | awk '{print $9}' | sort | uniq -c

Enable AWStats for Detailed Analytics

In HestiaCP, go to WEB → your domain → Statistics → Install AWStats.

Access via: https://example.com/awstats/awstats.pl