Configuring NGINX monitoring in Unified Agent

When you deploy the Unified Agent, you can select to enable NGINX plug-in to monitor NGINX workloads in Kubernetes environment. You need to do extra configuration to make it work.

Procedure

To deploy the Unified Agent with NGINX monitoring, do the following steps:

1. Edit the ua-nginx CR by running the following command:

   kubectl edit UA ua-nginx
   

2. Locate the section of [[inputs.nginx]].

3. Specify the NGINX service address that you want to monitor for urls, for example, http://nginx_service_IP:18080/nginx_status.

   See the following example of the configured CR:

   [[inputs.nginx]]
          # An array of Nginx stub_status URI to gather stats.
          urls = ["http://localhost/server_status"]
          # HTTP response timeout (default: 5s)
          response_timeout = "5s"
   

4. Make sure that the enabled state is true and save the CR.

Results

NGINX is successfully enabled and configured in Unified Agent.