Transitioning to the New NGINX Plus API for Configuration and Monitoring table.nginx-blog, table.nginx-blog th, table.nginx-blog td { border: 2px solid black; border-collapse: collapse; } table.nginx-blog { width: 100%; } table.nginx-blog th { background-color: #d3d3d3; align: left; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-top: 2px; line-height: 120%; } table.nginx-blog td { padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-top: 5px; line-height: 120%; } table.nginx-blog td.center { text-align: center; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-top: 5px; line-height: 120%; } One of the differentiating features of NGINX Plus is its use of shared memory to store additional metrics, runtime state, and configuration. This shared memory enables NGINX Plus to collect detailed extended status data, implement efficient health checks, and provide a dynamic configuration API. In NGINX Plus R12 and earlier, we provided two APIs to access this shared memory – one to read extended status data (the status API), and one [ more… ]