The Log Watch

One of the nice things about having a small, personal website is that traffic is slow enough you can make sense of it in real time. It's not a real monitoring solution, but while I am at my computer I do like to have a terminal open somewhere, logged into my server, and running tail -f /var/log/nginx/access.log

You can see some funny things sometimes. Just recently I watched a bot scan my site for a RSS feed. It was looking at all kinds of urls except the one actually <link>ed to in my page headers.