Sample web server access log (500 lines)

Five hundred request lines in Combined Log Format, as written by nginx and Apache, with a realistic mix of methods, paths and status codes.

sample-access.log

80.2 KB82,141 bytes

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Type: text/plain
SHA-256: c671ae4e10d829bd0db8cf25fa6df29b7ec50c41e408b35ee5e9705d0c62fe99
Direct URL: https://sampletestfiles.com/downloads/samples/sample-access.log

Why test with this file

For testing log parsers, dashboards, alert rules and regular expressions.

Lines	500
Format	Combined Log Format
IP addresses	Documentation ranges from RFC 5737
Line endings	LF
Encoding	ASCII

What to check

After your application has processed sample-access.log, confirm that:

All 500 lines match your parsing pattern.
Status codes are aggregated correctly, including the 404 and 500 responses.
Timestamps keep their +0000 offset.

How the file begins

The opening lines of sample-access.log, exactly as they appear in the file.

192.0.2.239 - - [01/Jan/2026:00:00:00 +0000] "GET /assets/app.js HTTP/1.1" 200 4759 "https://example.com/" "ExampleMonitor/1.0"
198.51.100.123 - - [01/Jan/2026:00:00:01 +0000] "GET /favicon.ico HTTP/1.1" 500 33395 "https://example.com/" "curl/8.5.0"
192.0.2.55 - - [01/Jan/2026:00:00:03 +0000] "GET /favicon.ico HTTP/1.1" 404 10647 "https://example.com/" "ExampleMonitor/1.0"
198.51.100.184 - - [01/Jan/2026:00:00:05 +0000] "GET /assets/app.css HTTP/1.1" 200 36767 "https://example.com/" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:12…
203.0.113.34 - - [01/Jan/2026:00:00:06 +0000] "GET /index.html HTTP/1.1" 204 19807 "https://example.com/" "ExampleMonitor/1.0"
203.0.113.75 - - [01/Jan/2026:00:00:08 +0000] "GET /downloads/report.pdf HTTP/1.1" 304 8816 "https://example.com/" "ExampleMonitor/1.0"

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Technical details

File name	sample-access.log
Format	LOG (Log file)
Extension	.log
MIME type	text/plain
Size	82,141 bytes (80.2 KB)
Kind	Text
SHA-256	c671ae4e10d829bd0db8cf25fa6df29b7ec50c41e408b35ee5e9705d0c62fe99
Created	2026-10-10
Validation	Exact size, signature bytes and structure checked when the file was generated
Preview	Available on this page
Source	Generated for this site; not copied from elsewhere
Licence	Free to use, modify and redistribute (terms)
Category	Testing

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Download from the command line and verify

Fetch the file with curl, then compare its checksum with the SHA-256 value above.

curl -o sample-access.log 'https://sampletestfiles.com/downloads/samples/sample-access.log'
sha256sum sample-access.log     # Linux
shasum -a 256 sample-access.log # macOS

On Windows, run Get-FileHash sample-access.log -Algorithm SHA256 in PowerShell. A matching value proves that the download is complete and unaltered.

About LOG

Line-oriented text records of events. The samples use the web-server Combined Log Format.

LOG format reference

Where it fits

File parser testing
Well-formed files and deliberate edge cases for testing code that reads CSV, JSON, XML, PDF and more.
CI/CD pipelines
Fixtures for build, test and deployment pipelines, with checksums for verification.

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