---
title: Telegraf Documentation
description: Telegraf plugin for collecting metrics from Nginx
url: https://docs.influxdata.com/telegraf/v1/input-plugins/nginx/
estimated_tokens: 1185
product: Telegraf
version: v1
---

-   Telegraf v0.1.5+

# Nginx Input Plugin

This plugin gathers metrics from the open source [Nginx web server](https://www.nginx.com). Nginx Plus is a commercial version. For more information about differences between Nginx (F/OSS) and Nginx Plus, see the Nginx [documentation](https://www.nginx.com/blog/whats-difference-nginx-foss-nginx-plus/).

**Introduced in:** Telegraf v0.1.5 **Tags:** server, web **OS support:** all

## Global configuration options

Plugins support additional global and plugin configuration settings for tasks such as modifying metrics, tags, and fields, creating aliases, and configuring plugin ordering. See [CONFIGURATION.md](/telegraf/v1/configuration/#plugins) for more details.

## Configuration

```toml
# Read Nginx's basic status information (ngx_http_stub_status_module)
[[inputs.nginx]]
  ## An array of Nginx stub_status URI to gather stats.
  urls = ["http://localhost/server_status", "http+unix:///var/run/nginx.sock:/server_status"]

  ## Optional TLS Config
  # tls_ca = "/etc/telegraf/ca.pem"
  # tls_cert = "/etc/telegraf/cert.pem"
  # tls_key = "/etc/telegraf/key.pem"
  ## Use TLS but skip chain & host verification
  # insecure_skip_verify = false

  ## HTTP response timeout (default: 5s)
  response_timeout = "5s"
```

## Metrics

-   Measurement
    -   accepts
    -   active
    -   handled
    -   reading
    -   requests
    -   waiting
    -   writing

## Tags

-   All measurements have the following tags:
    -   port
    -   server

## Example Output

Using this configuration:

```toml
[[inputs.nginx]]
  ## An array of Nginx stub_status URI to gather stats.
  urls = ["http://localhost/status"]
```

When run with:

```sh
./telegraf --config telegraf.conf --input-filter nginx --test
```

It produces:

```text
nginx,port=80,server=localhost accepts=605i,active=2i,handled=605i,reading=0i,requests=12132i,waiting=1i,writing=1i 1456690994701784331
```

#### Related

-   [Configure plugins](/telegraf/v1/configure_plugins/)
-   [Nginx Plugin Source](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/tree/v1.38.4/plugins/inputs/nginx/README.md)