nginx amplify: monitoring nginx with advanced filters and custom dashboards

Technical Deep Dive: Dashboards and Filters

October 19, 2016

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Agenda

• NGINX Amplify service overview

• Feature deep dive: Dashboards

• Feature deep dive: Filters

• Demo

• Q&A

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Webinar speaker

Nick ShadrinTechnical Solutions Architect, NGINX

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NGINX Placement

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What is NGINX Amplify?

SaaS based performance monitoring andconfiguration assistance solution native to NGINX

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NGINX Amplify Features

• Lightweight agent and a SaaS based Web UI

• Visualizes NGINX inventory and performance

• Collects every possible NGINX metric

• Custom graphs

• Static analysis of NGINX configuration

• Built-in alerting

• Doubles as simple OS-monitoring tool

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NGINX Amplify Features

• Lightweight agent and a SaaS based Web UI

• Visualizes NGINX inventory and performance

• Collects every possible NGINX metric

• Custom graphs

• Static analysis of NGINX configuration

• Built-in alerting

• Doubles as simple OS-monitoring tool

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Components of NGINX Amplify

• Agent - runs alongside NGINX

• Cloud - contains core services

• Web - presents metrics and graphs

• Graphs

• Dashboards

• Reports

• Alerts

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NGINX Amplify Dashboards

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NGINX Amplify Dashboards

• Single pane of glass view of NGINX performance

• Fully customizable

• Display any collected metrics

• Display metrics from various hosts

• Aggregate data

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NGINX Amplify Filters

• Filters add more granularity

• A filter is run by the agent

• Aggregated filtered metrics are sent to NGINX Amplify Cloud

• Filter configuration uses existing log_format

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NGINX Amplify Filter examples

• Display rate of specific status codes:

• Rate of 401 errors on the auth URL

• Rate of 5xx errors for the host

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NGINX Amplify Filter examples

• Display response time of a page:

• When do we see a slowdown of the reports page?

• Which backend servers work slower with this

application?

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NGINX Amplify Filter examples

• Display request distribution across multiple domains:

• How often users visit www.example.com and

www.example.net?

Demo

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More information

• nginx.com/amplify

• nginx.com/blog

• github.com/nginxinc

• github.com/nginxinc/nginx-amplify-agent

• github.com/nginxinc/nginx-amplify-doc

Questions

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