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koef
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Aug 21, 2024

Issue with worker_connections limits in Nginx+

Hello Nginx Community, We are using Nginx+ for our Load Balancer and have encountered a problem where the current worker_connections limit is insufficient. I need our monitoring system to check the...
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koef
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Aug 27, 2024

Hello, Nikoolayy1

Thanks for the reply. But my main question is how to predict that the situation is getting worse.

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Nikoolayy1
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Aug 27, 2024

koef you can send the logs to a external SIEM  like ELK or splunk and have dashboards that show the connections called metrics and see if they start to increase over the days or weeks. If you are in openshift/kubernetes prometheus is an option as well.

 

Nginx | Documentation (elastic.co)

 

Monitor nginx: Observe the logs and metrics of your nginx instances | Elastic Observability [8.15] | Elastic

 

GitHub - nginxinc/nginx-prometheus-exporter: NGINX Prometheus Exporter for NGINX and NGINX Plus

 

 

Also you can review the new Nginx One Cloud GUI dashboard :

 

Product Preview: NGINX One | F5

 

F5 NGINX One Cloud Console | NGINX Documentation

 

 

This Relic stuff also seems nice but I have not used it:

 

Monitoring NGINX and NGINX Plus with the New Relic Plug-In | NGINX Documentation