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title: "Accessing the Raw Access Logs in cPanel"
description: "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..."
url: https://www.inmotionhosting.com/support/edu/cpanel/accessing-the-raw-access-logs-in-cpanel/
date: 2014-07-11
modified: 2022-11-29
author: "InMotion Hosting Contributor"
categories: ["cPanel"]
type: post
lang: en
---

# 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](/support/edu/cpanel/enable-raw-access-logs-in-cpanel/).

1. [Log into cPanel](/support/edu/cpanel/how-to-log-into-cpanel/)
2. [](/support/images/stories/newPaperLantern/cmNewPaper_14.png)[](/support/images/stories/newPaperLantern/cmNewPaper_14.png)Under the **Metrics** section, click on **Raw Access** ![Raw access - cPanel](https://www.inmotionhosting.com/support/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/raw-access-cpanel.jpg) 
3. [](/support/images/stories/newPaperLantern/cmNewPaper_15.png)[](/support/images/stories/newPaperLantern/cmNewPaper_15.png)Click on the domain to see its stats.![Raw Access Logs page](https://www.inmotionhosting.com/support/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/raw-access-logs-page-1.jpg)  
4. Your browser should download the compressed raw access log. Once that has completed, use a program like [7zip](/support/website/compress-file/) to uncompress the files on your computer.
5. Uncompress the file and open it![Uncompressed file](https://www.inmotionhosting.com/support/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/uncompressed-file.jpg)

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](/support/website/awstats-review-website-stats/) in cPanel to do so.

If you have [SSH access](/support/server/ssh/how-to-login-ssh/) to your server, you can also learn about [reviewing traffic from an Apache access log](/support/server/apache/view-request-type-url-and-response-codes-apache-access-log/).