Monitoring Nginx

Step 1: Follow the steps for Installing Applicare SingleAgent

Nginx Configuration

Step 2: Stop the Nginx server.

Step 3: Navigate to the directory <Nginx_Installed_Directory>/conf and open the nginx.conf file for editing. On Linux, the default path is (/etc/nginx).

Step 4: Comment out the current format and insert the following log_format.

log_format  main  '$remote_addr - $remote_user $time_iso8601 [$request_time] "$request" '
                    '$status $body_bytes_sent "$http_referer" '
                    '"$http_user_agent" "$http_x_forwarded_for"';

Step 7: Insert the following lines within the server module

location /nginx-status {
stub_status on;
allow 127.0.0.1;
deny all;
}

Step 8: Start the Nginx server.

Integrating Nginx to Applicare

Step 9: Once the agent is started, It will be automatically registered with the Applicare controller. Log in to the Applicare console and go to the Overview menu.

Step 10: Select the newly added agent and click the Edit button.

Step 11: Enable the "Add Nginx Configuration" checkbox and  add the  below value.

1. Log file path

2. Nginx Host

3. Nginx Port 

4. Nginx Protocol

Click the update button to save.

Windows

Linux

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