community.general.nginx_status_info – Retrieve information on nginx status.

Note

This plugin is part of the community.general collection (version 2.5.1).

To install it use: ansible-galaxy collection install community.general.

To use it in a playbook, specify: community.general.nginx_status_info.

Synopsis

• Gathers information from nginx from an URL having stub_status enabled.

Parameters

Parameter	Choices/Defaults	Comments
timeout integer	Default: 10	HTTP connection timeout in seconds.
url string / required		URL of the nginx status.

Notes

Note

• See http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_stub_status_module.html for more information.

Examples

# Gather status info from nginx on localhost
- name: Get current http stats
  community.general.nginx_status_info:
    url: http://localhost/nginx_status
  register: result

# Gather status info from nginx on localhost with a custom timeout of 20 seconds
- name: Get current http stats
  community.general.nginx_status_info:
    url: http://localhost/nginx_status
    timeout: 20
  register: result

Return Values

Common return values are documented here, the following are the fields unique to this module:

Key	Returned	Description
accepts integer	success	The total number of accepted client connections. Sample: 81769947
active_connections integer	success	Active connections. Sample: 2340
data string	success	HTTP response as is. Sample: Active connections: 2340 server accepts handled requests 81769947 81769947 144332345 Reading: 0 Writing: 241 Waiting: 2092
handled integer	success	The total number of handled connections. Generally, the parameter value is the same as accepts unless some resource limits have been reached. Sample: 81769947
reading integer	success	The current number of connections where nginx is reading the request header.
requests integer	success	The total number of client requests. Sample: 144332345
waiting integer	success	The current number of idle client connections waiting for a request. Sample: 2092
writing integer	success	The current number of connections where nginx is writing the response back to the client. Sample: 241

Authors

• René Moser (@resmo)