Setting up a monitoring tool for NGINX is an important part of maintaining website operations. Proper NGINX monitoring can reveal a lot of useful information about the underlying application performance. There are quite a few monitoring systems out there suitable for the task; the first step, however, is to enable metric collection in NGINX. Using…
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The bigger and busier your site, the more important it is to monitor it. A good monitoring solution gives you visibility into your site helping you maintain uptime, performance, and security. Monitoring is one of the most popular topics on the NGINX blog, with a completely new, NGINX‑focused monitoring tool – NGINX Amplify – added in the last…
Continue reading ›Scaling Web Applications with NGINX, Part 2: Caching and Monitoring
This post is adapted from a talk given by Matt Williams at nginx.conf 2015, held in San Francisco in September. It is the second of two parts, and focuses on caching and monitoring; the first part focuses on load balancing. You can view the presentation slides and watch the complete talk on the NGINX, Inc. YouTube channel. Table…
Continue reading ›Scaling Web Applications with NGINX, Part 1: Load Balancing
This post is adapted from a talk given by Matt Williams at nginx.conf 2015, held in San Francisco in September. It is the first of two parts, and focuses on load balancing; the second part focuses on NGINX caching and monitoring. You can view the presentation slides and watch the complete talk on the NGINX, Inc. YouTube channel.…
Continue reading ›Application Performance Management and NGINX
Successful businesses understand their customers. This can be a bit easier with a physical storefront, where you have a direct connection to your customers and can visually gauge their experience. If they have to wait in line too long, you can quickly see that with your own eyes, and your customers are sure to tell…
Continue reading ›Monitoring NGINX Plus Load Balancing Metrics
In a short five years, NGINX, Inc. has gone from powering zero to powering one in every six of the busiest web sites on the Internet. Datadog uses NGINX and chances are you do too. Datadog is pleased to announce the expansion of our current NGINX monitoring tool to support the additional features in NGINX Plus. Launched…
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