Provide Grafana dashboard display for Nginx upstream servers health check!

[Sergey A. Osokin]

Hi Hari,

not to much but several articles and blog posts are available in
the Internet, and here is the one of them:

https://medium.com/@shevtsovav/ready-for-scraping-nginx-metrics-nginx-vts-exporter-prometheus-grafana-26c14816ae7c

Here's the link on third-party vts module on GH,
https://github.com/vozlt/nginx-module-vts

Hope that helps a lot.

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Sergey A. Osokin

On Thu, Oct 22, 2020 at 02:33:26PM +0200, Hari Kumar Gupta wrote:
> Hi,
> Thank you for your help in advance.
>
> I was very new to Nginx but I learnt and configured many upstream and
> virtual servers. The learning was adventure and really interesting as I
> move on.
>
> I had a thought to show upstream health checks on Grafana dashboard but
> unfortunately, I could not find any leads or documentation that could help
> me. How Grafana can be integrated with Nginx for monitoring health check?
>
> What I was planning to do,
>
> The configured upstream servers return different formats of data like
> JSON, XML, simple text and so on. My requirement is that, a job that runs
> on scheduled interval, fires a configured request to the upstream server
> (each upstream server has predefined request in properties file or some
> where), validate the output and display the status as health check on
> Grafana dashboard.
>
> Please help and advise
>  BR Hari