Discussion thread for official Zabbix Template Nginx

[AlexL]

This thread is designed to provide grounds for discussion of the upcoming official Zabbix Template for Nginx.
The template and details of the template is available in GIT repository.

https://git.zabbix.com/projects/ZBX/repos/zabbix/browse/templates/app/nginx_agent

https://git.zabbix.com/projects/ZBX/repos/zabbix/browse/templates/app/nginx_http

Zabbix is always looking for ways to improve our services and to make our users happier.
We pride ourselves on doing our best each and every day, but we know that there is always something more to learn.
We would like to hear back from you to know what have you liked and what would you improve in the template.

[AlexL]

Templates have been released and are available under the following URL:
HTTP Monitoring Template: https://git.zabbix.com/projects/ZBX/...app/nginx_http
Agent Monitoring Template: https://git.zabbix.com/projects/ZBX/...pp/nginx_agent

[scriptracer]

Why unpossible branchs release/4.0 and release/4.2 ?

[AlexL]

Why unpossible branchs release/4.0 and release/4.2 ?

The template relies heavily on JS pre-processing which was added to version 4.2 only, with 4.4 being released very soon and becoming limited support it will be only included in 4.4 version of Zabbix. However it should most likely work on 4.2 version if you import the xml file.

[scriptracer]

What is mean limited support? Not LTS?
What about future releases like 5.0?

[AlexL]

What is mean limited support? Not LTS?
What about future releases like 5.0?

Please see the life cycle policy. LTS are released every 1.5 years with two standard releases in between.

https://www.zabbix.com/life_cycle_and_release_policy

So the releases look the following:
4.0 LTS, 4.2 Standard, 4.4 Standard, 5.0 LTS, 5.2 Standard

[gospodin.horoshiy]

There is automatically converted version for 4.2 that can be found here, yet it doesn't have the official support:
https://github.com/v-zhuravlev/zbx_t...out/4.2/EN/app

[stratos]

Hello, I'm testing the official nginx agent template with zabbix 5.0.1. Everything works fine except the Nginx: Version item which reports Not supported with the following message:

[COLOR=#E45959][FONT=Arial][SIZE=12px]Preprocessing failed for: HTTP/1.1 200 OK..Server: nginx..Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2020 13:57:27 GMT..Content-Type: text/plain..Co...[/SIZE][/FONT][/COLOR]
[COLOR=#E45959][FONT=Arial][SIZE=12px]1. Failed: cannot perform regular expression "Server: nginx/(.+)" match for value of type "string": pattern does not match[/SIZE][/FONT][/COLOR]

I'm with nginx 1.18.0. Is there any incompatibility or I'm missing something. Thanks.

[Vlad2020202020]

Stratos, check your macros settings in zabbix templates, it helped me.

[t-131]

Hi
Have weird problem out-of-the-box

Have just installed zabbix 5
Have one linux webserver for monitoring
All templates works fine (OS, apache, mysql) except nginx

Its just do not collecting some items

https://i.imgur.com/TdVaZ23.png

local curl request returns info with external or internal IP

https://i.imgur.com/URbOuJz.png

https://i.imgur.com/Arezaq7.png

a have pointed out status path and port

https://i.imgur.com/Xg0NkA6.png

i can successfully do
web.page.get["{$NGINX.STUB_STATUS.HOST}","{$NGINX.STUB_STAT US.P ATH}","{$NGINX.STUB_STATUS.PORT}"]
with external or internal webserver's IP

https://i.imgur.com/mDpIAKk.png

Any suggestions?

wow
looks like it was necessary to add {$NGINX.STUB_STATUS.HOST} to host macros
here's full list

https://i.imgur.com/eNc14sr.png

resolved

[[email protected]]

Zabbix 5.2.1
trying to use the standard template "Nginx by Zabbix agent"

for collect metrics from multiple nginx on the same host
(each nginx uses its own ip address)

we cloning template and fix items, triggers, graphs and other, added a domain name everywhere.

add Macros
{$NGINX.STUB_STATUS.HOST.DOMAIN.ONE}
{$NGINX.STUB_STATUS.PATH.DOMAIN.ONE}
{$NGINX.STUB_STATUS.HOST.DOMAIN.TWO}
{$NGINX.STUB_STATUS.PATH.DOMAIN.TWO}
etc.

add first template to some_host
and check Latest data - all is ok, metrics for the first domain are visible.

then trying to add a second template and get an error:
---
Details Cannot update host
Item "nginx.connections.accepted.rate" already exists on "some_host", inherited from another template.
---


is it a bug?
"nginx.connections.accepted.rate" not Item, but Key

or this template cannot be used to collect metrics for multiple nginx from the same host?



while back to the old scheme with .sh scripts and UserParameter for each domain.

---
Thank you for your time,
With sincere respect, Vlad.

[mevalenzuela]

Buenos Días: estoy trabajando con Zabbix Version 5.02 y precisamos Monitorear los Servicios Nginx en varios Servidores con Ubuntu. Se agregaron los Host en Zabbix, se agregó el Template App Nginx by Zabbix agent en Zabbix
y cuando desplegamos un Dashboard para mostrar los Gráficos de las Métricas de los Nginx nos encontramos que no nos está trayendo todas las Métricas que precisamos.
Por ejemplo: cuando muestro el Grafico Data Overview me trae algunas Métricas como por Ejemplo: Utilización de CPU, memory usage (rss), memory usage (vsize), Number of Processes running, etc.
Pero NO me muestra otras Métricas como por ej. Connections accepted per second, Connections active, Connections dropped per second, Connections handled per second, Connections reading, Connections waiting, etc.
Alguien que me pueda indicar cuál puede ser el PROBLEMA?? Muchas Gracias.

[imartinezs]

I have exactly the same problem.
Did you find a solution?

Encontraste una solución?

[wei]

Hello,

I am new here. I am trying to use one of this Nginx template, but have some issues.

- Nginx by Zabbix agent

I only see 1 trigger for this template on my server, however, the official wiki shows it has 6 pre-build triggers.

[dunnsland]

I have installed the Nginx by Zabbix agent on 2 servers. It installed without hassles on the one server but on the second I have a lot of errors.

See below.




The error is listed below.
Preprocessing failed for: HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found..Server: nginx..Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2025 21:51:22 GMT..Content-Type: text/ht...
1. Failed: cannot perform regular expression "Reading: ([0-9]+) Writing: ([0-9]+) Waiting: ([0-9]+)" match for value of type "string": pattern does not match



Why is it that all the dependant items are all showing errors, and why can I not get the nginx stub status.


A little about the server.
I am running nginx version

nginx version: nginx/1.24.0 (Ubuntu)
built with OpenSSL 3.0.13 30 Jan 2024
TLS SNI support enabled

I am running 7 sites under my nginx server. Will this cause me any issues.

I am running zabbix_agentd (daemon) (Zabbix) 6.0.38

I am also running zabbix srever 6.0.38 and the related Nginx by Zabbix Agent version.

I hope that someone can help me understand that why I am not able to get the monitoring of my nginx instance.

Thanks in advance.

I hope that I have not forgotten any info that might be needed to understand my situation.

Lawrence

[PavelZ]

Did you notice marcos {$NGINX.STUB_STATUS.HOST} and {$NGINX.STUB_STATUS.PATH}?

Start by checking with curl
For example, running the command
curl http://localhost/server-status
should print the page, not a 404 error.

This url is often configured in nginx, but always.