Nginx Metrics and Logs Monitoring with OpenTelemetry

Nginx metrics and logs monitoring are important to ensure that Nginx is performing as expected and to identify and resolve problems quickly. In this tutorial, you will install OpenTelemetry Collector to collect Nginx metrics and logs and then send the collected data to SigNoz for monitoring and visualization. In this tutorial, we cover: A Brief Overview of NGINX A Brief Overview of OpenTelemetry How does OpenTelemetry Collector collect data? Pre-requisites Setting up SigNoz Setting up OpenTelemetry Collector Monitoring with Signoz Dashboard Reference: NGINX metrics collected by OpenTelemetry Collector Conclusion Further Reading If you want to jump straight into implementation, start with this pre-requisites section. For large-scale web applications serving thousands of requests per second, it becomes necessary to have multiple backend servers. These backend servers eventually receive traffic through a load-balancing server that handles the request distribution as needed. This type of s