How to Find an IP Address in Your Logs
Whether tracing a suspicious visitor or confirming your own access, finding an IP in your logs is a useful skill — and the first step before blocking anyone.
Step-by-step
- Find your own IP first (to exclude it) by searching "what is my IP" in a browser.
- Open Metrics → Visitors for a quick recent view, or Raw Access for full logs.
- Download and open the raw log in a text editor and use Find (Ctrl+F) to search the IP.
- Examine its requests — how many, how fast, which URLs, and the status codes returned.
- Judge intent. Rapid hits on login pages or wp-login.php suggest an attack; normal browsing is harmless.
- Act if needed — block the IP, or report persistent abuse to EconomicalHost support.
💡 Good to know
- A single IP making hundreds of rapid requests is a red flag.
- Do not block IP ranges blindly — you can accidentally block legitimate visitors or Google.
- Check the IP against an online IP-lookup to see its country and network.