frate

Measure file growing rate in real time.

Show the number of lines and KB per second the file is growing.

One useful use case is to monitor the "acess.log" of a webserver, to get a estimative of requests per second.

Simple example:

$ frate /var/log/nginx/access.log

Lines: 195.0/s, Avg: 174.6/s | Write: 18.5KB/s, Avg: 16.5KB/s

Notes

• Works on Python 2 and Python 3
• Uses only Python standard library for maximum compatibility

Install

Install using pip:

pip install frate

or

Download and set executable permission on the script file:

chmod +x frate.py

or

Download and run using the python interpreter:

python frate.py

Usage

Usage: frate file

show file growing rate, 'control-c' to stop

Options:
--version   show program's version number and exit
-h, --help  show this help message and exit