Nginx default checks and policies

  • Rversion finale: Australia
  • Mis à jour 12 mars 2026
  • 1 minute de lecture

    • Agent Client Collector provides the following policies for Nginx health monitoring. Policies come with the checks specified in the indicated table. Policies and checks are available for both Windows and Linux.

    Tableau 1. Nginx Events policy
    Check Description Usage Command Output
    nginx.check-nginx-alive Verifies whether Nginx server is alive.
    Remarque :
    Use basic authentication for events.
    		 check-nginx-status.rb
    -h, --host
    Nginx hostname
    -p, --port
    Nginx port
    Remarque :
    Use basic authentication for events.

    Successful

    CheckNginxStatus OK: Nginx is Alive and healthy

    Failure

    CheckNginxStatus CRITICAL: Nginx is Down
    Tableau 2. Nginx Metrics policy
    Check Description Usage Command Output
    nginx.metrics-nginx-server
    Retrieves the following information:
    nginx.active_connections
    Total number of active connections on server.
    nginx.accepts
    The accepted connections.
    nginx.handled
    Handled connections, which normally equals the number of accepted connections.
    nginx.requests
    Total number of handled requests by the server.
    nginx.read
    Shows whether the server is reading requests.
    nginx.writing
    Shows whether the server is writing responses to the client.
    nginx.waiting
    Idle connections waiting for a request.
    Remarque :
    Use basic authentication for metrics.
    		 metrics-nginx.rb

    Options:

    -u --url Full URL to the server status page. For example: https://yoursite.com/nginx_status

    		 
    ws19-INC0047517.nginx.active_connections 1 1640135552 
ws19-INC0047517.nginx.accepts 5746 1640135552 
ws19-INC0047517.nginx.handled 5746 1640135552 
ws19-INC0047517.nginx.requests 9603 1640135552 
ws19-INC0047517.nginx.reading 0 1640135552 
ws19-INC0047517.nginx.writing 1 1640135552 
ws19-INC0047517.nginx.waiting 0 1640135552