Apache Monitoring From The Command Line

I wanted to get a quick sense of what one of my Apache web servers was up to, so I through together the following:

1. I ssh'ed to the server
2. Enabled mod_status, so the URL http://servername.com/server-status would work. I did this by adding in the following to my httpd.conf file:

   <Location /server-status>
   SetHandler server-status
   
   Order Deny,Allow
   Deny from all
   Allow from localhost
   </Location> 
   

3. Restarted the web server to have the above take effect
4. Kicked off the command:

    lynx -dump http://localhost/server-status | head -30  
   

The result is a screen that refreshes every 2 seconds and tells me which processes in Apache are busy, and with what. Here's a sample screenshot:

Gosh I love Unix.