NGINX Logs
Site24x7 AppLogs is an agent-based log management tool on the cloud that natively facilitates effective and simple management for NGINX logs. It separates critical data in a simple and accessible format by segregating them into components like remote address, remote user, date & time, method, request-URI, protocol, status, bytes sent, referrer, user agent, and forwardedFor. Learn more about log management with Site24x7.
Getting started
- Log in to your Site24x7 account.
- Download and install the Site24x7 Server Monitoring agent (Windows | Linux).
- Go to Admin > AppLogs > Log Profile and Add Log Profile.
Logs file path
Each application writes logs in different folders and files. By default, NGINX logs are sourced from the below-mentioned folder path for the respective Operating System. If you have logs in a different folder, you can mention it under the File Path to source them from that particular folder while creating a log profile.
Log pattern
$RemoteAddress$ - $RemoteUser$ [$DateTime:date$] \"$Method$ $RequestURI$ $Protocol$\" $Status:number$ $BytesSent:number$ \"$Referer$\" \"$UserAgent$\" \"$ForwardedFor$\
This is the default pattern defined by Site24x7 for parsing NGINX logs based on the sample log mentioned below.
Sample log
GET / HTTP/1.1\" 200 612 \"-\" \"Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/52.0.2743.116 Safari/537.36\" \"-\"
The above sample log can be separated into 11 fields, each of which will take its respective value from here and will then be uploaded to Site24x7.
Field name | Field value |
Remote Address | GET |
Remote User | HTTP/1.1 |
Date Time | 200 612 |
Method | - |
RequestURI | - |
Protocol | Mozilla |
Status | X11; Linux x86_64 |
Bytes Sent | - |
Referer | AppleWebKit |
UserAgent | 537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/52.0.2743.116 Safari/537.36 |
ForwardedFor | - |
NGINX logs dashboard
AppLogs creates an exclusive dashboard for every Log Type, and shows a few widgets by default. Here's a list of the widgets available in the NGINX logs dashboard:
- Request Trend
- Top 10 Client IPs
- Rate of Bytes Served
- Top 20 Failed Requests
- Status Code Stats
- User Agent Stats
- HTTP Methods