plugins/inputs/nginx/README.md
This plugin gathers metrics from the open source Nginx web server. Nginx Plus is a commercial version. For more information about differences between Nginx (F/OSS) and Nginx Plus, see the Nginx documentation.
⭐ Telegraf v0.1.5 🏷️ server, web 💻 all
Plugins support additional global and plugin configuration settings for tasks such as modifying metrics, tags, and fields, creating aliases, and configuring plugin ordering. See CONFIGURATION.md for more details.
# Read Nginx's basic status information (ngx_http_stub_status_module)
[[inputs.nginx]]
## An array of Nginx stub_status URI to gather stats.
urls = ["http://localhost/server_status", "http+unix:///var/run/nginx.sock:/server_status"]
## Optional TLS Config
# tls_ca = "/etc/telegraf/ca.pem"
# tls_cert = "/etc/telegraf/cert.pem"
# tls_key = "/etc/telegraf/key.pem"
## Use TLS but skip chain & host verification
# insecure_skip_verify = false
## HTTP response timeout (default: 5s)
response_timeout = "5s"
Using this configuration:
[[inputs.nginx]]
## An array of Nginx stub_status URI to gather stats.
urls = ["http://localhost/status"]
When run with:
./telegraf --config telegraf.conf --input-filter nginx --test
It produces:
nginx,port=80,server=localhost accepts=605i,active=2i,handled=605i,reading=0i,requests=12132i,waiting=1i,writing=1i 1456690994701784331