nginx-vts-exporter

nginx-vts-exporter is powered by Kod, which is a dependency injection framework for Go.
It is designed to be simple and easy to use, and to provide a consistent way to manage dependencies across your application.

Simple server that scrapes Nginx vts stats and exports them via HTTP for Prometheus consumption

To support time related histogram metrics, please refer to sysulq/nginx-prometheus-metrics or #43.

ANN

It’s hard to say that this project is not maintained any longer, and it is recommended to use nginx-vtx-module instead, which supports multiple vhost_traffic_status_display_format, like <json|html|jsonp|prometheus>.

Hope you guys enjoy it, and thanks for all the contributors and the issue finders. 😃

Table of Contents

• nginx-vts-exporter
  • ANN
  • Table of Contents
  • Dependency
  • Download
  • Compile
    • build binary
    • build RPM package
    • build docker image
  • Docker Hub Image
  • Run
    • run binary
    • run docker
  • Environment variables
  • Metrics
    • Server main
    • Server zones
    • Filter zones
    • Upstreams

Dependency

• nginx-module-vts
• Prometheus
• Golang

Download

Binary can be downloaded from Releases page.

Compile

build binary

make

build RPM package

make rpm

build docker image

make docker

Docker Hub Image

docker pull sophos/nginx-vts-exporter:latest

It can be used directly instead of having to build the image yourself. (Docker Hub sophos/nginx-vts-exporter)

Run

run binary

nohup /bin/nginx-vts-exporter -nginx.scrape_uri=http://localhost/status/format/json

run docker

docker run  -ti --rm --env NGINX_STATUS="http://localhost/status/format/json" sophos/nginx-vts-exporter

Environment variables

This image is configurable using different env variables

Variable name	Default	Description
NGINX_STATUS	http://localhost/status/format/json	Nginx JSON format status page
METRICS_ENDPOINT	/metrics	Metrics endpoint exportation URI
METRICS_ADDR	:9913	Metrics exportation address:port
METRICS_NS	nginx	Prometheus metrics Namespaces

Metrics

Documents about exposed Prometheus metrics.

For details on the underlying metrics please see nginx-module-vts

For grafana dashboard please see nginx-vts-exporter dashboard

Server main

Metrics details

Nginx data	Name	Exposed informations
Info	{NAMESPACE}_server_info	hostName, nginxVersion, uptimeSec
Connections	{NAMESPACE}_server_connections	status [active, reading, writing, waiting, accepted, handled]

Metrics output example

# Server Info
nginx_server_info{hostName="localhost", nginxVersion="1.11.1"} 9527
# Server Connections
nginx_server_connections{status="accepted"} 70606

Server zones

Metrics details

Nginx data	Name	Exposed informations
Requests	{NAMESPACE}_server_requests	code [2xx, 3xx, 4xx, 5xx, total], host (or domain name)
Bytes	{NAMESPACE}_server_bytes	direction [in, out], host (or domain name)
Cache	{NAMESPACE}_server_cache	status [bypass, expired, hit, miss, revalidated, scarce, stale, updating], host (or domain name)

Metrics output example

# Server Requests
nginx_server_requests{code="1xx",host="test.domain.com"} 0

# Server Bytes
nginx_server_bytes{direction="in",host="test.domain.com"} 21

# Server Cache
nginx_server_cache{host="test.domain.com",status="bypass"} 2

Filter zones

Metrics details

Nginx data	Name	Exposed informations
Requests	{NAMESPACE}_filter_requests	code [2xx, 3xx, 4xx, 5xx and total], filter, filter name
Bytes	{NAMESPACE}_filter_bytes	direction [in, out], filter, filter name
Response time	{NAMESPACE}_filter_responseMsec	filter, filter name

Metrics output example

# Filter Requests
nginx_upstream_requests{code="1xx", filter="country", filterName="BY"} 0

# Filter Bytes
nginx_upstream_bytes{direction="in", filter="country", filterName="BY"} 0

# Filter Response time
nginx_upstream_responseMsec{filter="country", filterName="BY"} 99

Upstreams

Metrics details

Nginx data	Name	Exposed informations
Requests	{NAMESPACE}_upstream_requests	code [2xx, 3xx, 4xx, 5xx and total], upstream (or upstream name)
Bytes	{NAMESPACE}_upstream_bytes	direction [in, out], upstream (or upstream name)
Response time	{NAMESPACE}_upstream_responseMsec	backend (or server), in_bytes, out_bytes, upstream (or upstream name)

Metrics output example

# Upstream Requests
nginx_upstream_requests{code="1xx",upstream="XXX-XXXXX-3000"} 0

# Upstream Bytes
nginx_upstream_bytes{direction="in",upstream="XXX-XXXXX-3000"} 0

# Upstream Response time
nginx_upstream_responseMsec{backend="10.2.15.10:3000",upstream="XXX-XXXXX-3000"} 99