NGINX has quickly become a popular web server, powering a significant portion of the internet's busiest websites, and Datadog is expanding its monitoring capabilities to support NGINX Plus, a commercial version of NGINX introduced in 2013. NGINX Plus offers advanced features such as detailed HTTP request monitoring, health checks for custom pages, and sophisticated load balancing, all of which are now fully supported by Datadog's monitoring platform. Datadog's integration with NGINX Plus includes capturing comprehensive metrics, like connection statuses and response counts, which can be aggregated and visualized for improved infrastructure monitoring and analysis. Tags play a crucial role in Datadog's system, enabling users to manage and analyze data across servers seamlessly, while also allowing for the correlation of events and metrics from various systems. Users interested in exploring these capabilities can access free trials of both NGINX Plus and Datadog, providing an opportunity to enhance their monitoring and insight into HTTP load balancing.