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nginx

Default Metrics

The following metrics are emitted by default. Each of them can be disabled by applying the following configuration:

metrics:
  <metric_name>:
    enabled: false

nginx.connections_accepted

The total number of accepted client connections

Unit	Metric Type	Value Type	Aggregation Temporality	Monotonic
connections	Sum	Int	Cumulative	true

nginx.connections_current

The current number of nginx connections by state

Unit	Metric Type	Value Type	Aggregation Temporality	Monotonic
connections	Sum	Int	Cumulative	false

Attributes

Name	Description	Values
state	The state of a connection	Str: active, reading, writing, waiting

nginx.connections_handled

The total number of handled connections. Generally, the parameter value is the same as nginx.connections_accepted unless some resource limits have been reached (for example, the worker_connections limit).

Unit	Metric Type	Value Type	Aggregation Temporality	Monotonic
connections	Sum	Int	Cumulative	true

nginx.requests

Total number of requests made to the server since it started

Unit	Metric Type	Value Type	Aggregation Temporality	Monotonic
requests	Sum	Int	Cumulative	true