NGINX Logs Monitoring

NGINX is an open-source high performance load balancer. This module collects error and access logs from Nginx servers.

Setup & Configuration

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

Add the following lines in the file /etc/atatus-infra-agent/atatus.yml.
logs_enabled: true

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.

# Log section
logs:

  # - type : (mandatory) type of log input source (error / access)

  - type: error
  - type: access

# If you have custom nginx log path, you can use below syntax

  # - type: (mandatory) type of log input source (error / access)
  #   paths: (mandatory) Set paths if type is file
  #   service: (mandatory) name of the service owning the log
  #   source: (mandatory) attribute that defines which integration is sending the log

# Log section
logs:
   - type: error
     paths:
        - /var/log/nginx/error.log*
     source: nginx
     service: nginx
   - type: access
     paths:
        - /var/log/nginx/access.log*
     source: nginx
     service: nginx

Restart the atatus infrastructure agent.

sudo service atatus-infra-agent restart

​Setup & Configuration

Setup & Configuration