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Hector Danniel Paz Trillo wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm using stub_status module as a source collect metrics from my nginx
> servers. I'm doing this:
>
> (1) wget the stats page
> (2) wait 1 second
> (3) wget the stats page again
> (4) Get the difference of the requests value from (3) and (1) to get
> requests per second.
>
> Am I doing right? I am also collecting Active Connections and want to
> understand which of these values will give me a better idea on what's
> happening in my servers during high load/traffic hours.
>

For seeing nice graphs I use Munin with the nginx modules installed. You
can see attached for sample of daily and weekly graphs. There is also a
module for nginx memory usage.

For up to the second information I use the python script referenced at
http://hostingfu.com/article/quick-nginx-status-script. This will give
data like this:

Conn Conn/s Request/s Read Write Wait
-------- ---------- ---------- ----- ----- -----
486 21.80 47.90 152 75 259
476 17.70 59.80 149 54 273
448 18.20 43.90 133 56 259
428 18.30 46.90 124 68 236
-------- ---------- ---------- ----- ----- -----
459 19.00 49.62 139 63 256


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Jim Ohlstein