NGINX Monitoring - Atatus Docs

NGINX is an open source web server. NGINX is used for web serving, reverse proxying, caching, load balancing, media streaming, etc.

Setup & Configuration

The NGINX plugin is included with the Atatus Infra agent by default, please follow the below section to enable.

Copy the NGINX example configuration file.

cd /etc/atatus-infra-agent/conf.d/nginx.d/
sudo cp nginx.yml.template nginx.yml

Update the file /etc/atatus-infra-agent/conf.d/nginx.d/nginx.yml with below configurations.

# Metrics section
metrics:
      # Nginx hosts
    - hosts: ["http://127.0.0.1"]

      # Path to server status. Default nginx_status
      #status_path: "nginx_status"

Restart the atatus infrastructure agent.

sudo service atatus-infra-agent restart

Metrics

Name	Description	Type
nginx.stubstatus.accepts	The total number of accepted client connections.	`long`
nginx.stubstatus.handled	The total number of handled client connections.	`long`
nginx.stubstatus.dropped	The total number of dropped client connections.	`long`
nginx.stubstatus.requests	The total number of client requests.	`long`
nginx.stubstatus.active	The current number of active client connections including Waiting connections.	`long`
nginx.stubstatus.reading	The current number of connections where Nginx is reading the request header.	`long`
nginx.stubstatus.writing	The current number of connections where Nginx is writing the response back to the client.	`long`
nginx.stubstatus.waiting	The current number of idle client connections waiting for a request.	`long`