Nginx plugin

Nginx is a free, open-source, high-performance HTTP server and reverse proxy, as well as an IMAP/POP3 proxy server. For more information visit nginx.org .

This functionality is only available for agents running on Linux. It is not available on Windows.

Discovery

Even if the Nginx plugin is not configured, Cloud Monitoring will discover Nginx services running in your Cloud Platform project by:

• Searching instance names for nginx
• Checking for ports opened to 80or 443via firewall rules

To see the metrics for Nginx, do the following:

1. In the Google Cloud console, go to the Dashboards page:

   Go to Dashboards

   If you use the search bar to find this page, then select the result whose subheading is Monitoring .

2. Select the Nginxdashboard from the list.

Configuring Monitoring to monitor Nginx

After you install the monitoring agent , use the following instructions to configure the Nginx plugin on your instances.

Prerequisites

The Nginx plugin requires that you enable the status information handler in Nginx. This can be done by downloading status.conf from the GitHub configuration repository and placing it in the Nginx configuration directory (normally /etc/nginx/conf.d/ ):

 (cd /etc/nginx/conf.d/ && sudo curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Stackdriver/stackdriver-agent-service-configs/master/etc/nginx/conf.d/status.conf) 

Alternatively, you can append the contents of status.conf to your nginx.conf file, normally located in one of the following directories on your VM instance: /etc/nginx , /usr/local/nginx/conf , or /usr/local/etc/nginx .

Reload the Nginx configuration by running:

  sudo 
  
 service 
  
 nginx 
  
 reload 
 

Enabling the Nginx monitoring plugin

On your VM instance, download nginx.conf from the GitHub configuration repository and place it in the directory /etc/stackdriver/collectd.d/ :

 (cd /etc/stackdriver/collectd.d/ && sudo curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Stackdriver/stackdriver-agent-service-configs/master/etc/collectd.d/nginx.conf) 

After adding the configuration file, restart the monitoring agent by running the following command:

 sudo service stackdriver-agent restart 

For more information on the collectd nginx plugin, see Plugin:nginx .

What is monitored

The full list of metrics the Nginx plugin monitors is at Agent metrics: nginx .