The output of the above-given command will sort out all of the requests while putting a timestamp with each of them. Here, the first number represents the request count:
sudo cat /var/log/nginx/access.log | awk '{print $4}' | uniq -c | sort -rn | head
683 [26/Aug/2022:04:04:32
642 [26/Aug/2022:05:59:46
629 [26/Aug/2022:05:01:55
604 [26/Aug/2022:07:53:47
556 [26/Aug/2022:15:02:34
551 [26/Aug/2022:06:57:02
548 [26/Aug/2022:08:48:05
521 [26/Aug/2022:09:37:22
466 [26/Aug/2022:07:53:46
447 [26/Aug/2022:15:02:35