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cPanel’s Metrics section answers two questions: who’s hitting your site, and what is it costing in CPU, RAM, and bandwidth. Most tools here are read-only views into log data the server already collects.
Metrics section in cPanel home with all tool icons

Live activity

Visitors

Last 1,000 raw access entries per domain. Useful for spotting bots and abuse in real time.

Errors

Last 300 web server error log entries. First place to look when a page is broken.

Bandwidth

Bandwidth used by HTTP, IMAP, POP3, SMTP, and FTP, broken out per domain.

Raw Access

Download the full Apache access log as a gzip. Configure archiving and retention.

Visitor stats programs

Three different analytics tools, all running off the same Apache logs. Pick whichever output you find easier to read. Most accounts use AWStats and ignore the others.

Awstats

Daily-updated graphs of visits, top pages, referrers, and search terms.

Webalizer

Older monthly summary tool. Heavier on country and URL breakdowns.

Webalizer FTP

The same Webalizer engine pointed at FTP server logs. Useful if you run an FTP drop.

Analog Stats

Single-page text summary. Lightweight and legacy.

Server resources

Resource Usage

CloudLinux LVE: CPU, RAM, I/O, IOPS, processes. Snapshot tab is the one you want when something stalled.

Metrics Editor

Choose which stats programs run for which domains. Skip the ones you don’t read to save I/O.

Common starting points

Why is the site slow?

Open the Snapshot tab in Resource Usage and find the hour the slowdown started.

Why is this page 500-ing?

The error log shows the actual PHP or Apache failure.

Who's scraping me?

Live visitor list shows IPs, user agents, and the URLs they’re hitting.

Am I close to the bandwidth quota?

Bandwidth chart compares this month’s use against the plan cap.

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