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Nginx Monitoring Integration

Sematext offers a simple, easy to install, Nginx monitoring agent with minimal CPU and memory overhead.

Install Nginx Monitoring Agent¶

Setting up the monitoring agent takes less than 5 minutes:

Activate the Nginx stub_status module in the server section of your Nginx config file. If you are using the default Nginx config file it will be in /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default:
```
location /nginx_status {
  stub_status on;
  access_log off;
}
```
Create an Nginx App in the Integrations / Overview (or Sematext Cloud Europe). This will let you install the agent and control access to your monitoring and logs data.
Name your Nginx monitoring App and, if you want to collect Nginx logs as well, create a Logs App along the way.
Install the Sematext Agent according to the setup instructions displayed in the UI.

Metric Name	Key	Agg	Type	Description
requests	nginx.request.count	Sum	Long	requests: Request count
reading	nginx.requests.connections.reading	Avg	Double	reading: Nginx reads request header
writing	nginx.requests.connections.writing	Avg	Double	writing: Nginx reads request body, processes request, or writes response to a client
waiting	nginx.requests.connections.waiting	Avg	Double	waiting: keep-alive connections
active	nginx.requests.connections.active	Avg	Double	active: number of all open connections

PHP-FPM monitoring can be enabled along with Nginx monitoring. See PHP-FPM for more details.

If you are having issues with Sematext Monitoring, i.e. not seeing Nginx metrics, see How do I create the diagnostics package.

For more troubleshooting information please look at Troubleshooting section.