How to monitor apache web server load and Page statistics

Posted in Linux Servers on Jul 13, 2019

Mod_status is an Apache module which helps to monitor web server load and current httpd connections with an HTML interface which can be accessible via a web browser.

Enable mod_status in Apache

vi /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf

Search for the word “mod_status” or keep scrolling down until you find below line and remove # in order to enable mod_status.

Configure mod_status

Search for the word "location" and put these lines in order to configure mod_status.

After this, define the same configuration for each virtual host file for any domain configured in apache. Like for example : www.example.com

>Enable ExtendedStatus

In order to add more information to the statistics page like CPU usage, request per second, total traffic, etc - enable ExtentedStatus. Uncomment the line and set the status “On” for ExtendedStatus directive.

# ExtendedStatus controls whether Apache will generate "full" status
# information (ExtendedStatus On) or just basic information (ExtendedStatus
# Off) when the "server-status" handler is called. The default is Off.
#
ExtendedStatus On

Restart Apache

httpd -t

Syntax OK

service httpd restart

Stopping httpd:                                          [  OK  ]
Starting httpd:                                          [  OK  ]