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NGINX Prometheus Exporter

Official Prometheus exporter for NGINX and NGINX Plus

Monitoring & Status ★ 2k stars Easy setup Apache-2.0

NGINX Prometheus Exporter is the official exporter that scrapes the NGINX stub status or the NGINX Plus API and exposes connection, request, and upstream metrics for Prometheus. It is widely used to monitor reverse proxy and web server health.

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Key features

  • Stub status and Plus API support
  • Connection and request metrics
  • Upstream health for NGINX Plus
  • Single static binary

Pros & cons

Strengths

  • Maintained by NGINX team
  • Trivial to deploy

Trade-offs

  • Limited metrics from stub status
  • Best detail needs NGINX Plus

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