Is it possible to monitor the fair proxy balancer?

[mike]

To me, nginx just needs a simple API that could be worked with:

a) for reporting (I'd like to see bytes and requests per each Host:
header) and for the below stuff...

b) for dynamic addition/removal of upstreams (external healthchecking
scripts can tell nginx when to add/remove upstreams) - this seems to
be coming up a lot too


On 6/27/08, Rt Ibmer <rtibmx at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > Guess I'll have to start looking at HAProxy, but
> > I'd rather not.
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> nginx is a very stable, flexible and powerful server for sure. Hopefully you can keep with it.
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> The issue of not having any direct stats/reporting about the upstream status keeps coming up over and over. I think it is the only significant drawback and would love to see it addressed.  Unfortunately folks tend to post that the monitoring is not the job of nginx.  However I disagree - nginx is the one that pulls and upstream out of rotation, and at a minimum it should at least have a way to signal another process.  It would be great to see this addressed once and for all - hopefully one of these days it will get the priority and attention it deserves IMO.
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