Obtaining req/s or connections/sec sent to a backend-server?

[Yichun Zhang (agentzh)]

Hello!

On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 2:54 PM, Alex Flex wrote:
> to poll for stats regarding the amount of connections/requests sent to
> backend servers. Id like to know if there is creative way I can do this
> without parsing the logs ?

This is a trivial task if you write a simple tool based on systemtap
or dtrace :)

Take a look at my Nginx Systemtap Toolkit for some examples:

    https://github.com/agentzh/nginx-systemtap-toolkit

Best regards,
-agentzh