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NGINX Cookbook

By : Tim Butler
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NGINX Cookbook

By: Tim Butler

Overview of this book

NGINX Cookbook covers the basics of configuring NGINX as a web server for use with common web frameworks such as WordPress and Ruby on Rails, through to utilization as a reverse proxy. Designed as a go-to reference guide, this book will give you practical answers based on real-world deployments to get you up and running quickly. Recipes have also been provided for multiple SSL configurations, different logging scenarios, practical rewrites, and multiple load balancing scenarios. Advanced topics include covering bandwidth management, Docker container usage, performance tuning, OpenResty, and the NGINX Plus commercial features. By the time you've read this book, you will be able to adapt and use a wide variety of NGINX implementations to solve any problems you have.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)

Real-time server activity monitoring

We covered some of the basics of monitoring your server all the way back in Chapter 1, Let's Get Started, which used the ngxtop utility to provide basic command line driven monitoring and statistics. Included in NGINX Plus is a powerful and comprehensive metrics system to show you real-time activity for your NGINX server.

As you'll see in the upcoming screenshots, this is quite a comprehensive system. Not only does it include a web interface so that you can see the stats, but this data is also available as a JSON feed so that it can be directly imported by external monitoring tools.

Getting ready

As this is part of the NGINX Plus packages, you'll need to ensure you have NGINX...