reqstat

Components

• reqstatd

  Daemon that receive log messages (in syslog format) from webserver (fox ex. nginx), collect statistics and expose in Prometheus format.

• reqstat

  CLI utility to show metrics in console.

How to send nginx logs to reqstatd

By default reqstatd waiting nginx log in combined (default) format on 2671/tcp port.

To send logs to reqstat add line like this to nginx configuration (for ex. /etc/nginx/conf.d/reqstat.conf):

access_log syslog:server=localhost:2671;

And then reload nginx:

service nginx reload

How to build deb package

On Debian Stretch:

1. Install build dependencies:

   apt install -y dpkg-dev debhelper dh-systemd python3-setuptools
   

2. Build package:

   dpkg-buildpackage -uc -us
   

Alternatives

If you looking for production solution to collect nginx metrics try nginx-module-vts, grok_exporter and mtail.