nginx_status_facts – Retrieve nginx status facts

New in version 2.3.

Synopsis
Parameters
Notes
Examples
Return Values
Status

Synopsis

Gathers facts from nginx from an URL having stub_status enabled.

Parameters

Parameter	Choices/Defaults	Comments
timeout -	Default: 10	HTTP connection timeout in seconds.
url - / 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 facts from nginx on localhost
- name: get current http stats
  nginx_status_facts:
    url: http://localhost/nginx_status

# Gather status facts from nginx on localhost with a custom timeout of 20 seconds
- name: get current http stats
  nginx_status_facts:
    url: http://localhost/nginx_status
    timeout: 20

Return Values

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

Key	Returned	Description
nginx_status_facts.accepts integer	success	The total number of accepted client connections. Sample: 81769947
nginx_status_facts.active_connections integer	success	Active connections. Sample: 2340
nginx_status_facts.data string	success	HTTP response as is. Sample: Active connections: 2340 server accepts handled requests 81769947 81769947 144332345 Reading: 0 Writing: 241 Waiting: 2092
nginx_status_facts.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
nginx_status_facts.reading integer	success	The current number of connections where nginx is reading the request header.
nginx_status_facts.requests integer	success	The total number of client requests. Sample: 144332345
nginx_status_facts.waiting integer	success	The current number of idle client connections waiting for a request. Sample: 2092
nginx_status_facts.writing integer	success	The current number of connections where nginx is writing the response back to the client. Sample: 241

Status

This module is not guaranteed to have a backwards compatible interface. [preview]
This module is maintained by the Ansible Community. [community]

Authors

René Moser (@resmo)

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