Monitoring NGINX performance with New Relic

NGINX, initially developed over 15 years ago as an open-source web server for speed, stability, and reliability, has evolved into one of the fastest web servers globally, widely used for content caching, media streaming, and as a reverse proxy. It operates efficiently on both low-cost and high-end servers due to its asynchronous request handling and small memory footprint. Monitoring NGINX is crucial for maintaining web application health, as it often serves as an indicator of performance issues within an application or architecture. New Relic offers an integration for both the open-source and commercial versions of NGINX, enabling detailed monitoring of performance metrics such as client connections and HTTP error responses. This monitoring helps in providing early warnings of potential application failures. The integration is open source, allowing for community improvements and customizations, and New Relic provides a platform for further exploration and support through their Explorers Hub.