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

Note

This module is part of the community.general collection (version 8.5.0).

You might already have this collection installed if you are using the ansible package. It is not included in ansible-core. To check whether it is installed, run ansible-galaxy collection list.

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.

Aliases: web_infrastructure.nginx_status_info

Parameters

Parameter

Comments

timeout

integer

HTTP connection timeout in seconds.

Default: 10

url

string / required

URL of the nginx status.

Attributes

Attribute

Support

Description

check_mode

Support: full

This action does not modify state.

Can run in check_mode and return changed status prediction without modifying target.

diff_mode

Support: N/A

This action does not modify state.

Will return details on what has changed (or possibly needs changing in check_mode), when in diff mode.

Notes

Note

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

Description

accepts

integer

The total number of accepted client connections.

Returned: success

Sample: 81769947

active_connections

integer

Active connections.

Returned: success

Sample: 2340

data

string

HTTP response as is.

Returned: success

Sample: "Active connections: 2340 \nserver accepts handled requests\n 81769947 81769947 144332345 \nReading: 0 Writing: 241 Waiting: 2092 \n"

handled

integer

The total number of handled connections. Generally, the parameter value is the same as accepts unless some resource limits have been reached.

Returned: success

Sample: 81769947

reading

integer

The current number of connections where nginx is reading the request header.

Returned: success

Sample: 0

requests

integer

The total number of client requests.

Returned: success

Sample: 144332345

waiting

integer

The current number of idle client connections waiting for a request.

Returned: success

Sample: 2092

writing

integer

The current number of connections where nginx is writing the response back to the client.

Returned: success

Sample: 241

Authors

  • René Moser (@resmo)