Getting Started With the InfluxDB Template for NGINX Ingress Controller

The article discusses how to use the NGINX Ingress Controller Template for monitoring purposes in conjunction with InfluxDB. It explains that NGINX is a popular reverse proxy, load balancer, API gateway, cache, and web application firewall used by many busy websites and applications. The InfluxDB community has created an InfluxDB Template to help users monitor their NGINX Controller setup inside their Kubernetes cluster. The article provides instructions on how to install the template using either the InfluxDB UI or the Influx CLI, as well as information about the NGINX Ingress Controller Monitoring Dashboard in InfluxDB and other installation options available at GitHub. It also outlines the environment variables required for Telegraf configuration and provides a note on how to set these variables before running Telegraf. The article concludes by encouraging readers to install the NGINX Ingress Controller Template with a free InfluxDB account if they are ready to combine the capabilities of NGINX with the power of InfluxDB.