Nginx and VictoriaMetrics Integration
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Input and output integration overview
The Nginx plugin for Telegraf is designed to collect status metrics from Nginx web servers, providing real-time insights into server operation metrics.
This plugin enables Telegraf to efficiently write metrics directly into VictoriaMetrics using the InfluxDB line protocol, leveraging the performance and scalability features of VictoriaMetrics for large-scale time-series data.
Integration details
Nginx
This plugin gathers status metrics from Nginx. It utilizes the ngx_http_stub_status_module to collect basic metrics related to the server’s performance. The plugin provides valuable insights into active connections, requests handled, and the current state of various metrics. This real-time data is essential for monitoring web server performance and ensuring optimal operations. The configuration allows users to specify the URL for the Nginx status endpoint, set timeouts, and configure TLS settings if necessary.
VictoriaMetrics
VictoriaMetrics supports direct ingestion of metrics in the InfluxDB line protocol, making this plugin ideal for efficient real-time metric storage and retrieval. The integration combines Telegraf’s extensive metric collection capabilities with VictoriaMetrics’ optimized storage and querying features, including compression, fast ingestion rates, and efficient disk utilization. Ideal for cloud-native and large-scale monitoring scenarios, this plugin offers simplicity, robust performance, and high reliability, enabling advanced operational insights and long-term storage solutions for large volumes of metrics.
Configuration
Nginx
[[inputs.nginx]]
## An array of Nginx stub_status URI to gather stats.
urls = ["http://localhost/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"
VictoriaMetrics
[[outputs.influxdb]]
## URL of the VictoriaMetrics write endpoint
urls = ["http://localhost:8428"]
## VictoriaMetrics accepts InfluxDB line protocol directly
database = "db_name"
## Optional authentication
# username = "username"
# password = "password"
# skip_database_creation = true
# exclude_retention_policy_tag = true
# content_encoding = "gzip"
## Timeout for HTTP requests
timeout = "5s"
## Optional TLS configuration
# tls_ca = "/path/to/ca.pem"
# tls_cert = "/path/to/cert.pem"
# tls_key = "/path/to/key.pem"
# insecure_skip_verify = false
Input and output integration examples
Nginx
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Web Performance Monitoring: Use the Nginx plugin to gather performance metrics from various Nginx servers across your infrastructure. By visualizing these metrics in real-time dashboards, teams can track performance trends, identify bottlenecks, and enhance the user experience on their web applications. Implementing such monitoring allows businesses to proactively address performance issues before they impact end-users.
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Load Balancer Monitoring: Integrate this plugin with your load balancers to track the performance of backend Nginx servers. By collecting statistics like ‘active connections’ and ‘requests handled’, your operations team can ensure that traffic is flowing optimally and that no single server is overwhelmed. This proactive approach to load balancing prevents service downtime and enhances user experience.
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Automated Alerting Systems: Combine the Nginx plugin with alerting services to automatically notify your team when a server’s metrics exceed predefined thresholds. For instance, if the number of active connections is too high, the system can trigger alerts so that corrective actions can be taken immediately, thus maintaining service quality and reliability.
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Historical Data Analysis: Store the metrics collected by the Nginx plugin in a time-series database to analyze historical performance trends. This analysis can uncover periods of high traffic or poor performance, allowing for data-driven decisions about infrastructure scaling and optimization. By understanding past trends, organizations can better prepare for future demands.
VictoriaMetrics
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Cloud-Native Application Monitoring: Stream metrics from microservices deployed on Kubernetes directly into VictoriaMetrics. By centralizing metrics, organizations can perform real-time monitoring, rapid anomaly detection, and seamless scalability across dynamically evolving cloud environments.
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Scalable IoT Data Management: Use the plugin to ingest sensor data from IoT deployments into VictoriaMetrics. This approach facilitates real-time analytics, predictive maintenance, and efficient management of massive volumes of sensor data with minimal storage overhead.
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Financial Systems Performance Tracking: Leverage VictoriaMetrics via this plugin to store and analyze metrics from financial systems, capturing latency, transaction volume, and error rates. Organizations can rapidly identify and resolve performance bottlenecks, ensuring high availability and regulatory compliance.
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Cross-Environment Performance Dashboards: Integrate metrics from diverse infrastructure components—such as cloud instances, containers, and physical servers into VictoriaMetrics. Using visualization tools, teams can build comprehensive dashboards for end-to-end performance visibility, proactive troubleshooting, and infrastructure optimization.
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Powerful Performance, Limitless Scale
Collect, organize, and act on massive volumes of high-velocity data. Any data is more valuable when you think of it as time series data. with InfluxDB, the #1 time series platform built to scale with Telegraf.
See Ways to Get Started
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