This is a text-only version of the following page on https://raymii.org: --- Title : Munin - Set up the NGINX status plugin on Ubuntu 12.04 Author : Remy van Elst Date : 31-01-2013 URL : https://raymii.org/s/snippets/Munin-NGINX-Status-Plugin-Ubuntu-12.04.html Format : Markdown/HTML --- This post will show you how to set up the Munin plugin to monitor NGINX (`nginx_request` and `nginx_status`) and graph it. You need to change some URLs in the config because by default this is wrong.

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For this tutorial you need to have a munin server and a NGINX server. All commands need to be run as root or a superuser. First enable the nginx status page: ## Edit your nginx configuration (vhost) and add this in a server {} block location /nginx_status { stub_status on; access_log off; allow 127.0.0.1; deny all; } The above config will enable the status module only for the localhost, without access logging. This means that nobody other than munin can access the status page. Execute this command to change the munin configuration to have the correct URL for the plugin: if [[ $(cat /etc/munin/plugin-conf.d/munin-node | grep "nginx") = "" ]]; then echo -e "\n[nginx*]\nenv.url http://localhost/nginx_status" >> /etc/munin/plugin-conf.d/munin-node; fi Then configure the munin plugins: munin-node-configure --suggest --shell | sh This creates the symlinks in the `/etc/munin/plugins/` folder. If they are note there, `ln -s` them yourself. Finally restart munin: /etc/init.d/munin-node restart Done. You will now have nice nginx ghraps like below: ![munin][2] [2]: /s/inc/img/nginx_status-day.png --- License: All the text on this website is free as in freedom unless stated otherwise. This means you can use it in any way you want, you can copy it, change it the way you like and republish it, as long as you release the (modified) content under the same license to give others the same freedoms you've got and place my name and a link to this site with the article as source. This site uses Google Analytics for statistics and Google Adwords for advertisements. You are tracked and Google knows everything about you. Use an adblocker like ublock-origin if you don't want it. All the code on this website is licensed under the GNU GPL v3 license unless already licensed under a license which does not allows this form of licensing or if another license is stated on that page / in that software: This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see . Just to be clear, the information on this website is for meant for educational purposes and you use it at your own risk. I do not take responsibility if you screw something up. Use common sense, do not 'rm -rf /' as root for example. If you have any questions then do not hesitate to contact me. See https://raymii.org/s/static/About.html for details.