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varnishhist
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Varnish request histogram
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SYNOPSIS
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.. include:: ../include/varnishhist_synopsis.rst
varnishhist |synopsis|

DESCRIPTION
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The varnishhist utility reads varnishd(1) shared memory logs and
presents a continuously updated histogram showing the distribution
of the last N requests by their processing.  The value of N and the
vertical scale are displayed in the top left corner.  The horizontal
scale is logarithmic.  Hits are marked with a pipe character ("|"),
and misses are marked with a hash character ("#").

The following options are available:

.. include:: ../include/varnishhist_options.rst

SEE ALSO
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* varnishd(1)
* varnishlog(1)
* varnishncsa(1)
* varnishstat(1)
* varnishtop(1)

HISTORY
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The varnishhist utility was developed by Poul-Henning Kamp in cooperation with
Verdens Gang AS and Varnish Software AS. This manual page was written by
Dag-Erling Smørgrav.

COPYRIGHT
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This document is licensed under the same licence as Varnish
itself. See LICENCE for details.

* Copyright (c) 2006 Verdens Gang AS
* Copyright (c) 2006-2014 Varnish Software AS