Designed to handle tens of thousands of concurrent requests, Nginx is one of the fastest and highly scalable web servers around. Not only is Nginx a very efficient web server, but it is often widely used as a reverse proxy, HTTP cache, and load balancer. While Apache continues to be the most popular web server in use, Nginx has become the most popular web server among the web traffic web sites. Since they are often the front ends to business-critical web sites, availability and performance of Nginx servers is of vital importance.
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Monitoring Digital Experience Web Applications on Nginx
- Use a combination of synthetic monitoring and real user monitoring (RUM) to track user experience
- Identify remote locations that may be experiencing performance slowdown
- Report on Javascript errors and slow page groups to alert application operations teams of potential areas of concern
- Monitor availability and responsiveness of individual web servers from multiple locations and differentiate front-end slowness from backend slowness
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“With eG Innovations, we are reducing system maintenance and support costs, avoiding incremental IT spending and eliminating system downtime across the hospital. Performance and prediction reports help us optimize IT spending and save $100,000 per year.
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Peter Bakker
Manager, ICT GHZ
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Track Nginx Server Health
- Get key performance indicators about each Nginx server, including busy workers, number of requests, and active/dropped connections
- Track system performance metrics (CPU, memory, and more) to identify the root cause
- Get alerted to performance deviations, configuration changes, and excessive resource usage
- Track health and availability of network traffic, TCP requests, and connectivity, along with metrics like retransmissions, round-trip time, and throughput
- Monitor web server logs to track overall traffic volume, pages that are slow and those that returned in error
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Get End-to-End Web Application Insights
- Obtain application topology maps that depict the Nginx web servers and their dependencies with the rest of the application delivery chain
- Monitor every layer and every tier of each of the web application tiers
- Detect performance anomalies and identify the root-cause of slowdowns: whether it is the CPU saturation slowing down your database or a storage failure that is affecting performance
- Get out-of-the-box monitoring, reporting, alerting dashboards, and reports from a single pane of glass
- Analyze transaction processing at the application server tier and report on the slowest database queries so administrators and developers can fine-tune the application
What Ngnix Monitoring with eG Enterprise Reveals
What is Nginx?
Nginx (pronounced "engine-x") is a free, open-source, high-performance HTTP server (aka web server) and reverse proxy, as well as an IMAP/POP3 proxy server. Owing to its high performance architecture, Nginx is used by many of the heaviest trafficked web sites.
Why eG? One Monitor to Manage All of IT.
- eG Enterprise is the only single pane-of-glass, virtualization-aware, auto-diagnostic IT infrastructure performance monitor
- Gain actionable answers to performance issues, wherever they originate, from application code to bare metal
- Understand the impact of infrastructure issues on application performance and user experience
- Unify IT performance monitoring, alerting, diagnosing, reporting, and capacity planning in a single console
- Ensure a great user experience and dramatically improve IT efficiency
- Benefit from flexible deployment options (on-premises and SaaS) and IT monitoring approaches (agentless and agent-based)
