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Monitor Nginx with DumbMonit
The web server and reverse proxy: active and waiting connections, the accept/handled/request rates, and upstream health when the commercial NGINX Plus API is available.
DocumentationOfficial website: Nginx
Product descriptions are in English, as in the product. The page labels follow your language.
What DumbMonit watches
The web server and reverse proxy: active and waiting connections, the accept/handled/request rates, and upstream health when the commercial NGINX Plus API is available.
Typical use. Web server: active/waiting connections, accept/handled/request rates, NGINX Plus upstream health
Examples
- Nginx in Docker
- Nginx as a reverse proxy
- Nginx on a Linux host
How it connects
What you need
- Basic authIf the status page sits behind a basic auth block or directive.
No account needed.
Network ports to open
80/TCPStatus page (HTTP, default)443/TCPOnly if the status page is served over HTTPS
Setup steps: Enable Nginx's stub_status module
Add this location to the server block Nginx already serves, restricted to the DumbMonit host (adjust the address).
location /basic_status { stub_status; allow 10.0.0.5; deny all; }Reload Nginx.
nginx -s reloadOpen http://nginx.lan/basic_status from the DumbMonit host: it must show Active connections.
In DumbMonit, enter the Nginx host, for example nginx.lan, and the path if it is not /basic_status.
If NGINX Plus is installed, tick Read the NGINX Plus API to add upstream health and per-zone counters.
Heads-up. stub_status only counts connections and requests: a configuration error in a server block or an unreachable backend does not show there.