How to custom my nginx log format?

[ihaolin]

Hello,
My nginx log is defined, like :

log_format    main   '$remote_addr - $remote_user [$time_local] "$request" '
                     '$status $body_bytes_sent "$http_referer" '
                     '"$http_user_agent" "$http_x_forwarded_for" $request_length $request_time $bytes_sent ' 
                     '"$upstream_cache_status"';

What should I use ngxtop with this log_format, I don't discover an option for this situation.

Thanks & Regards

[dale-c-anderson]

I believe I'm having the same issue. I tried running

ngxtop -c /etc/nginx/conf.d/my-virtual-host 

which uses the 'main' custom log format (defined in /etc/nginx/nginx.conf on CentOS6), but ngxtop responds with "Incorrect format name set in config for access log file".

If I run

ngxtop -l  /path/to/my/access.log 

which uses this 'main' format, ngxtop reports no statistics at all.

If I copy the 'log_format main ...' line from /etc/nginx/nginx.conf in to my virtual host config file, and then try running it with the -c flag again, it works as expected. So does that mean ngxtop is ignoring the log file formats defined in the 'http' section of /etc/nginx/nginx.conf? Or am I misunderstanding how this is supposed to work?

[phamthanhnhan14]

A lot of issue with custom access log format.
Error: Incorrect format name set in config for access log file "/data/logs/httpxxx.vn"

[zjd921692097]

I believe I'm having the same issue. I tried running

ngxtop -c /etc/nginx/conf.d/my-virtual-host 

which uses the 'main' custom log format (defined in /etc/nginx/nginx.conf on CentOS6), but ngxtop responds with "Incorrect format name set in config for access log file".

If I run

ngxtop -l  /path/to/my/access.log 

which uses this 'main' format, ngxtop reports no statistics at all.

If I copy the 'log_format main ...' line from /etc/nginx/nginx.conf in to my virtual host config file, and then try running it with the -c flag again, it works as expected. So does that mean ngxtop is ignoring the log file formats defined in the 'http' section of /etc/nginx/nginx.conf? Or am I misunderstanding how this is supposed to work?

how to 'copy the 'log_format main ...' line from /etc/nginx/nginx.conf in to my virtual host config file'