Take the leg work out of reading your apache logs by converting them to a structured format that's easy to read. Enter JSON :)

Create the file /etc/apache2/vhosts.d/00_default_logging.conf
You will also need to ensure the "logio_module" is enabled.

For the access log, I use the format: Apache doc.

LogFormat "{\"time\":\"%{msec}t\", \"bytes_in\":\"%I\", \"bytes_out\":\"%O\", \"cookie\":\"%{Cookie}i\", \"server\":\"%v\", \"dest_port\":\"%p\", \"http_content_type\":\"%{Content-type}i\", \"http_method\":\"%m\", \"http_referrer\":\"%{Referer}i\", \"http_user_agent\":\"%{User-agent}i\", \"ident\":\"%l\", \"response_time_microseconds\":\"%D\", \"client\":\"%h\", \"remoteAddr\":\"%a\", \"status\":\"%>s\", \"uri_path\":\"%U\", \"uri_query\":\"%q\", \"user\":\"%u\"}" apache_json

And for the error log, I use: Apache doc.

ErrorLogFormat "{\"time\":\"%{msec}t\", \"client\":\"%a\", \"log_level\":\"%l\", \"pid\":\"%P\", \"srcln\":\"%F\", \"error_code\":\"%E\", \"message\":\"%M\"}"

In the vhost.conf I have the following at the bottom of my VirtualHost block:

<VirtualHost>
    ...
    CustomLog "/var/log/apache2/ssl_access.log" apache_json
    ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/ssl_error.log
</VirtualHost>

Give the command to test the config is sane:

apachectl configtest

If nothing is returned, go ahead and restart apache.
This also makes importing the logs much easier into tools like ELK or Splunk.