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Introducing Custom Dashboards in NGINX Amplify We are very excited to announce the addition of custom dashboards to NGINX Amplify, our SaaS-based tool for monitoring and managing NGINX. Now you can create your own dashboards populated with highly customizable graphs of NGINX and system-level metrics. As you can see, not only can the metrics be summed (or averaged across several NGINX servers), but it is also possible to create additional “metric dimensions”, for example, reporting the number of POST requests for a specific URI. NGINX Amplify is currently in private beta. We want to thank everyone who provided their feedback and various suggestions. Everything you’ve told us so far has been incredibly helpful. If you haven’t yet, sign up for the private beta today. Now, let’s dig deeper into the custom dashboards. Using Custom Dashboards In NGINX Amplify With this new feature, you [ more… ]

Microservices Reference Architecture, Part 2 – The Proxy Model The NGINX Microservices Reference Architecture is under development. It will be made publically available later this year, and will be discussed in detail at nginx.conf 2016, September 7–9 in Austin, TX. Early bird discounts are available now. Author’s note – This blog post is the second in a series; we will extend this list as new posts appear: Introducing the NGINX Microservices Reference Architecture Microservices Reference Architecture, Part 2 – The Proxy Model (this post) Upcoming posts will cover the other two models included in the Microservices Reference Architecture (MRA) and related topics. I’ve written a separate article about web frontends for microservices applications. We also have a very useful and popular series about microservices application design, plus other microservices blog posts and microservices webinars. Introducing the Proxy Model As the name implies, the Proxy Model places NGINX Plus as a reverse proxy server [ more… ]