Nginx

Description

It gathers performance metrics about Nginx web server.

Features:

Requests received per second
Connections received per second
Number of nginx processes
Number of active connections
Accepted connections per second
Number of requests in each state: waiting, reading, writing

Requirements

Nginx version >= 1.7
Nginx status module must be enabled.

Setup

Enable status module adding this location to your nginx vhost configuration. The location block should be inside the server block of your site.

server {

…

location /nginx_status {

stub_status on; # activate stub_status module

access_log off;

allow 127.0.0.1; # restrict access to local only

deny all;

}

…

}

Verify and restart nginx

$ sudo nginx -t

$ sudo service nginx restart

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