nginx request time

[Jérôme Loyet]

2009/6/17 Maxim Dounin <mdounin at mdounin.ru>:
> Hello!
>
> On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 02:50:43PM +0200, Jérôme Loyet wrote:
>
>> 2009/4/13 Maxim Dounin <mdounin at mdounin.ru>:
>> > Hello!
>> >
>> > On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 12:44:50AM +0530, Deepan Chakravarthy wrote:
>> >
>> >> Hi,
>> >> Is it possible to log the time taken for each request in the log file ?  Or
>> >> is there a package like apache top for nginx ?
>> >
>> > http://wiki.nginx.org/NginxHttpLogModule#log_format
>> > $request_time
>> >
>>
>> I'm using $request_time in my access_log and I have this:
>> 10.1.1.1 - - [17/Jun/2009:14:48:12 +0200] "GET
>> /lib/exploit_tools/test.static.html HTTP/1.1" 200 1391040 "-"
>> "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.2; .NET CLR 1.1.4322;
>> .NET CLR 2.0.50727)" 26.691
>>
>> And on the wiki it's said:
>> $request_time, the time it took nginx to work on the request, in
>> milliseconds, (in seconds for versions older than 0.5.19)
>
> Official docs say it's "... request processing time in seconds with
> millisecond resolution" (in Russian). See
> http://sysoev.ru/nginx/docs/http/ngx_http_log_module.html.

Thanks for the answer and the translation :)

>
>> 26.691 is the time in seconds with milliseconds after the dot. Am I right ?
>
> Yes.
>
> Maxim Dounin
>
>