Day: May 31, 2011

Sometimes, we prefer to view statistics in graphical form rather than numerical values​​, which is not too attractive to be displayed. Nginx supports stub_status directive module, which we can use to print:

• Active connections
• Server accepts handled requests
• Reading
• Writing
• Waiting

For example:

Active connections: 6
server accepts handled requests
 15561 15561 26602
Reading: 4 Writing: 2 Waiting: 0

However, This module is not compiled by default and must be specified using this argument when compiling nginx.

--with-http_stub_status_module

First, to get statistics like the above example, you should modify nginx config file and add location directive this

server {
....
....
	location /nginx_status {
		stub_status on;
		access_log   off;
		allow 1.2.3.4;
		allow 5.6.7.8;
		deny all;
	}
}

perl scripts used to generate statistical images can be downloaded here:

http://kovyrin.net/files/mrtg/rrd_nginx.pl.txt

Rename rrd_nginx.pl.txt to rrd_nginx.pl and make it executable