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nginx_status_facts - Retrieve nginx status facts.

New in version 2.3.

Synopsis

  • Gathers facts from nginx from an URL having stub_status enabled.

Options

parameter required default choices comments
timeout
no 10
HTTP connection timeout in seconds.
url
yes
URL of the nginx status.

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 Return Values, the following are the fields unique to this module:

name description returned type sample
nginx_status_facts.requests
The total number of client requests.
success int 144332345
nginx_status_facts.data
HTTP response as is.
success string Active connections: 2340 server accepts handled requests 81769947 81769947 144332345 Reading: 0 Writing: 241 Waiting: 2092
nginx_status_facts.writing
The current number of connections where nginx is writing the response back to the client.
success int 241
nginx_status_facts.reading
The current number of connections where nginx is reading the request header.
success int 0
nginx_status_facts.waiting
The current number of idle client connections waiting for a request.
success int 2092
nginx_status_facts.active_connections
Active connections.
success int 2340
nginx_status_facts.accepts
The total number of accepted client connections.
success int 81769947
nginx_status_facts.handled
The total number of handled connections. Generally, the parameter value is the same as accepts unless some resource limits have been reached.
success int 81769947

Notes

Status

This module is flagged as preview which means that it is not guaranteed to have a backwards compatible interface.

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Licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3.
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/nginx_status_facts_module.html