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Improving App Performance and Reliability with NGINX Amplify, Part 1 – Features and Capabilities This post is adapted from a webinar by Faisal Memon and Nick Shadrin. This post is the first of two parts, and gives an overview of the features and capabilities of NGINX Amplify. The second part, featuring a live demo, is coming soon. You can watch a replay of the complete webinar here. Table of Contents  0:00 Introduction  0:39 NGINX  2:04 Visibility Matters  3:48 NGINX Amplify Functionality  5:54 NGINX Amplify Components  7:07 Free Public Beta  8:40 NGINX Amplify Recommendations 10:12 Analytics and Troubleshooting 11:55 Customized Alerts 0:00 Introduction Faisal: Today we’ll be talking about NGINX Amplify, our new monitoring tool for NGINX. My name is Faisal Memon and I do product marketing here at NGINX. I’ve been doing this job for about a year now, and prior to this role I worked as a technical marketing engineer [ more… ]

Using Librato to Monitor NGINX Plus This is a guest post by our friends at Librato, and is also posted on their blog. Ever struggled with setting up good monitoring for your web servers? Always wanted better graphs to understand what was really going on? Librato is a SaaS monitoring solution for collecting, analyzing, and alerting on metrics. We make it dead simple to monitor everything from your NGINX web servers all the way down to the request latency between two internal services, and much more. We’ve put a lot of work into a painless configuration process with clear, useful dashboards: Librato has a multitude of turn‑key integrations (40+ and growing, in fact), but we are particularly proud of our NGINX Plus integration. Librato’s NGINX Plus Integration NGINX Plus is an enterprise‑grade edition of the popular open source NGINX web server, packed full [ more… ]

The Imperva HTTP/2 Vulnerability Report and NGINX On Thursday, August 4th, Imperva – an Internet security company – announced four potential security vulnerabilities in the HTTP/2 protocol, and issued a detailed report evaluating a number of webservers against these vulnerabilities. NGINX 1.9.9 performed comparatively well in Imperva’s tests, and was not affected by three of the four potential vulnerabilities. Attempts to exploit the remaining vulnerability, “Slow Read”, caused a resource leakage in NGINX and ultimately allowed a denial-of-service attack against HTTP/2 services. Vulnerabilities exposed in leading webservers (from the Imperva report) The fault was reported to NGINX, and was resolved promptly in the NGINX 1.9.12 and NGINX Plus R9 releases. We are pleased to confirm that none of the current versions of NGINX – NGINX Plus, NGINX ‘mainline’, NGINX ‘stable’ – are vulnerable to any of the potential attacks described [ more… ]