README.md

Nginx Exporter for Prometheus

This Prometheus Exporter retrieves nginx stats and exports them via HTTP for Prometheus consumption.

To run it:

./nginx_exporter [flags]

Help on flags:

./nginx_exporter --help

Using Docker

docker pull fish/nginx-exporter

docker run -d -p 9113:9113 fish/nginx-exporter \
    -nginx.scrape_uri=http://172.17.42.1/nginx_status

In production you should use a tagged release: https://hub.docker.com/r/fish/nginx-exporter/tags/

Alternatives

While nginx natively only provides the small set of metrics this exporter provides, nginx-module-vts adds extensive metrics that can be consumed by:

• Standalone Prometheus Exporter: https://github.com/hnlq715/nginx-vts-exporter
• Kubernetes NGINX Ingres controller: https://github.com/kubernetes/ingress-nginx/blob/master/docs/examples/customization/custom-vts-metrics-prometheus/README.md