Review the NGINX Plus & Grafana Dashboard StatisticsΒΆ

This section is optional and showcases the use of NGINX Dashboard (included with NGINX Plus).

  1. Return to Firefox and open a new tab. Click the NGINX+ Dashboard bookmark.
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  1. The landing page gives you an overview of the current traffic statistics. Click on HTTP Upstreams.
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  1. The HTTP Upstreams section shows all your Kubernetes endpoints.
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  1. The additional detail provided in the NGINX Dashboard is provided via Snippets that are enabled in the values.yaml file and directivese called out in arcadia-vs.yml file.
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  1. Here is a small section showing how the snippet directive was used in arcadia-vs.yml file.
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  1. Open a new tab in Firefox and click the Grafana bookmark.
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  1. Log in using the lab / Agility2023! credentials.
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  1. Click on the Dashboards icon and select Dashboards from the left menu.
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  1. Click on the NGINX Plus Ingress Controller dashboard in the list.
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  1. This section shows Prometheus exporting NGINX Ingress Controller data to Grafana. For a full list of metrics exported please see this link.
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  1. Expand the sections in the dashboard to see the related statistics.
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This concludes the NGINX Ingress Controller deployment for NGINX App Protect.