NGINX (pronounced as "engine X") is an open-source web server that is commonly used for a wide-range of capabilities, serving as a reverse proxy, mail proxy, load balancing and HTTP cache. With Applications Manager's NGINX monitoring capabilities, you can obtain in-depth insights into the performance of your NGINX web server and optimize the performance instantly in real time. Become aware of downtime or server overloads and improve user experience in your web applications.
NGINX monitoring tools like Applications Manager enables you to track the performance of your NGINX web servers with the help of following capabilities:
Obtain a comprehensive overview on the performance of your NGINX servers in real time. Keep constant track of the availability and health of your NGINX web servers to ensure your web servers are up and running without any interruptions. Find out how long your NGINX web servers take to respond to requests to estimate the processing capacity of your web servers and to take corrective actions before end users are impacted.
As NGINX is well known for its load balancing capability, the amount of connections handled by them can become higher than usual. A surge in the number of active connections can slow down your server performance and can result in connection drops.
With Applications Manager's NGINX monitor, you can keep a close watch on the number of connections that are currently handled by your NGINX server instance and get notified instantly when the connections reach the maximum limit. This will enable you to take necessary steps to handle traffic and to scale your resources accordingly, if needed.
If you use NGINX Plus, the commercial version of NGINX instead of the open source NGINX web server, you can make use of Applications Manager's NGINX Plus monitoring capabilities to obtain deep visibility into the health of your NGINX Plus servers. You can also get deep insights into additional enterprise-graded features, such as SSL, TCP connection statistics, server zones and their corresponding upstream servers, content caching, and more.
If you already use Prometheus and scrape metrics from NGINX, you can simply integrate Applications Manager with Prometheus and visualize the NGINX metrics in Applications Manager.
NGINX is a popular open source high-performance web server for larger web setups. It is known for its rich feature set, simple configuration, and low resource consumption. With a robust Nginx monitoring solution like Applications Manager, you can monitor Nginx performance thoroughly, maintain its health and uptime and optmize it to eliminate performance issues for maximum uptime.
It allows us to track crucial metrics such as response times, resource utilization, error rates, and transaction performance. The real-time monitoring alerts promptly notify us of any issues or anomalies, enabling us to take immediate action.
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