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Using NGINX Amplify Custom Dashboards and Filters for Better NGINX Monitoring This blog post is the third in a series about how to monitor NGINX and make the most out of your web delivery infrastructure with NGINX Amplify: Setting Up NGINX Amplify in 10 Minutes Improving Server Configuration with NGINX Amplify Reports Using NGINX Amplify Custom Dashboards and Filters for Better NGINX Monitoring (this post) In a recent blog post, we introduced and briefly described custom dashboards. This blog post describes how you can use custom dashboards and filters to focus in on the metrics that most exactly indicate how well NGINX and your applications are functioning. By alerting you of potential outages and performance bottlenecks, the improved monitoring data helps you improve uptime and NGINX performance. Architectural Components of NGINX Amplify The dashboards and filters in NGINX Amplify interact with these other NGINX Amplify [ more… ]

NGINX and NGINX Plus Ingress Controllers for Kubernetes Load Balancing Running and managing microservices applications in containers at scale across a cluster of machines is a challenging task. Kubernetes helps you meet the challenge by giving you a powerful solution for container orchestration. It includes several important features, such as fault tolerance, autoscaling, rolling updates, storage, service discovery, and load balancing. In this blog post we explain how to use the open source NGINX software or NGINX Plus with Ingress, the built‑in Kubernetes load‑balancing framework for HTTP traffic. Ingress enables you to configure rules that control the routing of external traffic to the services in your Kubernetes cluster. You can choose any load balancer that provides an Ingress controller, which is software you deploy in your cluster to integrate Kubernetes and the load balancer. Here we show you how to configure load [ more… ]

Deploying All-Active, Highly Available NGINX Plus Load Balancing on Google Compute Engine As the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Google Compute Engine (GCE) have become increasingly popular, we’ve published several resources explaining how to use NGINX Plus as the load balancer in the Google cloud infrastructure: Announcing NGINX Plus on the Google Cloud Platform on our blog Installing NGINX Plus on the Google Cloud Platform in the NGINX Plus Admin Guide Deploying NGINX Plus with Kubernetes on GCE in an on‑demand webinar These resources are extremely helpful if you’re just starting on GCE or running containerized solutions with Kubernetes. Now, we’ve created a complete soup-to-nuts guide for deploying NGINX Plus on GCE, showing you how to create a robust, highly available application delivery architecture that addresses the majority of the production use cases we’ve seen. The guide walks you through every step required to build [ more… ]

NGINX Plus Sizing Guide: How We Tested Earlier this year we benchmarked the performance of NGINX and created a sizing guide for deploying NGINX and NGINX Plus on bare metal servers. The sizing guide is helpful in deploying NGINX and NGINX Plus as load balancers. NGINX and NGINX Plus are widely used for Layer 7 load balancing, also known as application load balancing. The sizing guide outlines the performance you can expect to achieve with NGINX Plus running on various server sizes, along with the estimated costs for the hardware. You can use the sizing guide to appropriately spec out NGINX Plus deployments, and to avoid over provisioning – which costs you money immediately – or under provisioning – which can cause performance problems, and cost you money in the long run – as much as possible. We’ve had a [ more… ]

When Every Millisecond Counts, Team Internet Uses NGINX Plus on AWS NGINX Plus Enables Autoscaling on Every Tier with Automation and APM Integration   Situation Team Internet is a leading provider of services in the online advertising space. The company offers a variety of ad types that match advertisers with online publishers in order to provide high value, targeted traffic for its advertisers and relevant, useful content for Internet users. One of Team Internet’s products is TONIC., a traffic marketplace that enabled advertisers to drive highly relevant traffic to their websites. Advertisers are able to from a range of detailed targeting options to ensure maximum relevancy of their ads. Despite the complexity the whole process from bidding to ad delivery needs to happen in 100-200 milliseconds. Top performance of the platform is critical in order to satisfy advertisers – who [ more… ]