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NGINX Receiver

OpenTelemetry Collector receiver · contrib distribution

This receiver can fetch stats from a NGINX instance using the ngx_http_stub_status_module module's status endpoint.

Component ID: contrib-nginxreceiver
Name: nginxreceiver
Type: receiver
Distribution: contrib
Repository: opentelemetry-collector-contrib

Stability

Level	Signals
beta	metrics

Metrics

Metric	Type	Value type	Unit	Stability	Enabled	Attributes	Description
`nginx.connections_accepted`	sum (monotonic)	int	{connections}	development	yes		The total number of accepted client connections
`nginx.connections_current`	sum	int	{connections}	development	yes	`state` (string)	The current number of nginx connections by state
`nginx.connections_handled`	sum (monotonic)	int	{connections}	development	yes		The total number of handled connections. Generally, the parameter value is the same as nginx.connections_accepted unless some resource limits have been reached (for example, the worker_connections limit).
`nginx.requests`	sum (monotonic)	int	{requests}	development	yes		Total number of requests made to the server since it started

Attributes

Attribute	Type	Description
`state`	string	The state of a connection

Data

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