Using NGINX Logging for Application Performance Monitoring
The live activity monitoring dashboard and API in NGINX Plus track many system metrics that you can use to analyze the load and performance of your system. If you need request-level information, the access logging in NGINX and NGINX Plus is very flexible – you can configure which data is logged, selecting from the large number of data points that can be included in a log entry in the form of variables. You can also define customized log formats for different parts of your application. One interesting use case for taking advantage of the flexibility of NGINX access logging is application performance monitoring (APM). There are certainly many APM tools to choose from and NGINX is not a complete replacement for them, but it’s simple to get detailed visibility into the performance of your applications by adding timing values to your code [ more… ]