NGINX metrics

Many of the collected metrics from NGINX entities are displayed as widgets in SolarWinds Observability explorers. Additional metrics may be collected and available in the Metrics Explorer. You can also create an alert for when an entity's metric value moves out of a specific range. See Entities in SolarWinds Observability SaaS for information about entity types in SolarWinds Observability SaaS.

The following table lists some of the metrics collected for these entities. To see the NGINX metrics in the Metrics Explorer, type nginx. in the search box.

Metric	Units	Description
nginx.conections	Connections	The current number of nginx connections by state.
nginx.connections_accepted	Connections	The total number of accepted client connections.
nginx.connections_accepted.gauge	Connections	The accepted client connections (gauge).
nginx.connections_accepted.rate	Connections	The number of accepted client connections per second.
nginx.connections_current	Connections	The current number of nginx connections by state.
nginx.connections_dropped	Connections	The total number of dropped client connections.
nginx.connections_dropped.rate	Connections	The number of dropped client connections per second.
nginx.connections_handled	Connections	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).
nginx.connections_handled.gauge	Connections	The handled client connections (gauge).
nginx.connections_handled.rate	Connections	The number of handled client connections per second.
nginx.requests	Requests	The total number of requests made to the server since it started.
nginx.requests.rate	Requests per second	The number of requests per second.