Brian GautreauSales Engineer – NGINX Inc.

NGINX Plus, Kubernetes & Prometheus Gain insights into your N+ Ingress Controller

NGINX Plus and the Ingress Controller

NGINX Plus API

Prometheus, Prometheus Exporter, Grafana

Demo

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Agenda

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NGINX Plus, Kubernetes, Prometheus and Grafana

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K8s and NGINX Plus

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• Ingress Controller available in NGINX Inc. Github repo

• SSL Termination, Path based routing, rewrites, websockets

• Also exposes NGINX Plus functionality ◦ Status API, Session Persistence, JWT

Auth, On-the-fly reconfig

• Annotations for extending functionality

https://github.com/nginxinc/kubernetes-ingress

NGINX Plus API

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• Over 150 metrics ◦ HTTP and Stream ◦ Server blocks ◦ Upstreams ◦ Cache Instrumentation ◦ Memory zone utilization

• Read/Write(able)

http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_api_module.html

Prometheus Metrics

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• Stores time based metrics • Easy to query, filter

and extract • Scrapes data from

instances • Aggregate multiple

sources of data

https://prometheus.io/

NGINX Prometheus Exporter

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• Converts the API status into Prometheus consumable data

• Written in GO • Exposes metrics such as: ◦ Status codes ◦ Connection counts ◦ Upstreams status ◦ Server zone status

• Automatic discovery with Prometheus Annotations

https://github.com/nginxinc/nginx-prometheus-exporter

Grafana Dashboards

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• Powerful WebUI for data accessing and visualizing datasources

• Customize dashboards for meaningful reports

• Report on NGINX uptime, health, throughput etc.

https://grafana.com/

Demo Time

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Q & A

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brian.gautreau@nginx.com

Thank you