discordianfish / nginx_exporter

Simple server that scrapes nginx stats and exports them via HTTP for Prometheus consumption

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