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group: Respond
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# Monitoring NGINX (DEPRECATED) **(FREE)**
> [Deprecated](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/346541) in GitLab 14.7.
WARNING:
This feature is in its end-of-life process. It is [deprecated](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/346541)
for use in GitLab 14.7, and is planned for removal in GitLab 15.0.
GitLab has support for automatically detecting and monitoring NGINX. This is provided by leveraging the [NGINX VTS exporter](https://github.com/hnlq715/nginx-vts-exporter), which translates [VTS statistics](https://github.com/vozlt/nginx-module-vts) into a Prometheus readable form.
## Requirements
The [Prometheus service](../prometheus.md) must be enabled.
## Metrics supported
NGINX server metrics are detected, which tracks the pages and content directly served by NGINX.
[`environment_filter`](../../../../operations/metrics/dashboards/variables.md#environment_filter) is one of the predefined variables that metrics dashboards support.
| Name | Query |
| ---- | ----- |
| Throughput (req/sec) | `sum(rate(nginx_server_requests{server_zone!="*", server_zone!="_", %{environment_filter}}[2m])) by (code)` |
| Latency (ms) | `avg(nginx_server_requestMsec{%{environment_filter}})` |
| HTTP Error Rate (HTTP Errors / sec) | `sum(rate(nginx_server_requests{code="5xx", %{environment_filter}}[2m]))` |
| HTTP Error (%)| `sum(rate(nginx_server_requests{code=~"5.*", host="*", %{environment_filter}}[2m])) / sum(rate(nginx_server_requests{code="total", host="*", %{environment_filter}}[2m])) * 100` |
## Configuring Prometheus to monitor for NGINX metrics
To get started with NGINX monitoring, you should first enable the [VTS statistics](https://github.com/vozlt/nginx-module-vts) module for your NGINX server. This captures and displays statistics in an HTML readable form. Next, you should install and configure the [NGINX VTS exporter](https://github.com/hnlq715/nginx-vts-exporter) which parses these statistics and translates them into a Prometheus monitoring endpoint.
If you are using NGINX as your Kubernetes Ingress, GitLab [automatically detects](nginx_ingress.md) the metrics once enabled in 0.9.0 and later releases.
## Specifying the Environment label
In order to isolate and only display relevant metrics for a given environment
however, GitLab needs a method to detect which labels are associated. To do this, GitLab [looks for an `environment` label](index.md#identifying-environments).
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