Announcing the upstream status module

[Maxim Dounin]

Hello!

On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 10:18:33PM +0530, Arvind Jayaprakash wrote:

> This module provides a handler called upstream_status that can be used
> as follows:
> 
> location /foo {
> 	  upstream_status;
> }
> 
> 
> It reports all the upstream blocks configured for this server. For
> upstreams managed using the round robin (default upstream), it lists all
> the backends configured in a block and indicates the current status
> (up/down)
> 
> http://github.com/anomalizer/ngx_upstream_status
> 
> 
> Improvements are welcome.

Most important improvement is to document that it actually shows 
configuration and status of upstreams in one particular worker 
process which status request happened to hit.

And, uhm, number of allocs you use to produce simple answer is 
really outstanding.  ;)

Maxim Dounin