Accessing the Raw Access Logs in cPanel

In cPanel, you can access your website’s raw access logs to see the traffic to your website before it is turned into a report by statistics software. This is great for taking a closer look at the type of requests your site is getting.

To get the most out of your raw access logs, you want to enable raw access log archiving in cPanel.

1. Log into cPanel

2. Under the Metrics section, click on Raw Access

   
   

    

3. Click on the domain to see its stats.

   
   
   
    
4. Your browser should download the compressed raw access log. Once that has completed, use a program like 7zip to uncompress the files on your computer.
   

5. Uncompress the file and open it

   
   
   

You will now see every request that your website had to deal with. If you just wanted to easily review your website traffic, you could use something like AWStats in cPanel to do so.

If you have SSH access to your server, you can also learn about reviewing traffic from an Apache access log.