# Metricbeat can't collect nginx metrics **URL:** \ **Category:** Beats\ **Tags:** metricbeat\ **Created:** [March 1, 2017, 4:46am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-cant-collect-nginx-metrics/76911 "2017-03-01T04:46:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Robin\_Guo](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/robin_guo/32/42297_2.png) [@Robin\_Guo](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Robin_Guo)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2017, 4:46am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-cant-collect-nginx-metrics/76911/1 "2017-03-01T04:46:40Z")
Hi folks, 🙂We encountered an issue while we trying to collect the nginx metrics from a nginx server via metricbeat, the thing that we installed the newest nginx version and also enabled nginx status module and setup nginx module correctly in metricbeat.xml. when I enabled debug mode with metricbeat, can't get the nginx module metrics. It would be appreciated if someone can help on this. **Env:** OS: centOS 6.8 Metricbeat: 5.2.1-1 Nginx:1.10.2 **Configure:** /usr/local/nginx/sbin/nginx -V 2\>&1 | grep -o with-http\_stub\_status\_module **with-http\_stub\_status\_module** nginx.conf ``` server { location /nginx_status { stub_status on; access_log off; allow 127.0.0.1; deny all; } } ``` **metricbeat.xml** ``` - module: nginx metricsets: ["stubstatus"] enabled: true period: 10s # Nginx hosts hosts: ["127.0.0.1"] # Path to server status. Default server-status #server_status_path: "nginx-status" ``` **Test:** curl -k [http://127.0.0.1/nginx\_status](http://127.0.0.1/nginx_status) ``` Active connections: 7 server accepts handled requests 125 125 2721 Reading: 0 Writing: 1 Waiting: 6 ``` **/usr/share/metricbeat/bin/metricbeat -c /etc/metricbeat/metricbeat.yml \>/tmp/nginx** ``` "metricset": { "host": "127.0.0.1", "module": "nginx", "name": "stubstatus", "rtt": 3630 }, "nginx": { "stubstatus": {} }, "type": "metricsets" ``` ---
**Author:** ![ruflin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ruflin/32/3116_2.png) [@ruflin](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ruflin)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2017, 9:33am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-cant-collect-nginx-metrics/76911/2 "2017-03-01T09:33:29Z")
Our current implementation is tested with 1.9. I'm curious if something changed in 1.10? Could you share the output you get if you access `localhost/server-status`? ---
**Author:** ![Robin\_Guo](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/robin_guo/32/42297_2.png) [@Robin\_Guo](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Robin_Guo)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2017, 3:40am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-cant-collect-nginx-metrics/76911/3 "2017-03-02T03:40:06Z")
Hi ruflin, Thanks for your quickly reply. after I changed nginx location of stubstus from **nginx-status** to **server-status** , we can get the nginx metrics, It's weird that the configure file saids the **server\_status\_path** can be customized. **nginx.conf** ``` server { location /server-status { stub_status on; access_log off; allow 127.0.0.1; deny all; } } ``` **metricbeat.yml** - module: nginx metricsets: ["stubstatus"] enabled: true period: 10s **metricbet startup log by debug mode** 2017/03/02 03:29:24.991245 module.go:78: DBG Initializing Module type 'nginx': \*mb.BaseModule={name:"nginx", config:{Module:"nginx", MetricSets:[stubstatus], Enabled:true, Hosts:[1 hosts], Period:"10s", Timeout:"1s", Raw:false, Fields:null, FieldsUnderRoot:false, Tags:[]}} 2017/03/02 03:29:24.991253 processor.go:43: DBG Processors: 2017/03/02 03:29:24.991260 module.go:94: DBG Initializing MetricSet type 'nginx/stubstatus' for host '127.0.0.1': \*stubstatus.MetricSet={name:"stubstatus", module:"nginx", hostData:{SanitizedURI:"[http://127.0.0.1/server-status](http://127.0.0.1/server-status)", Host:"127.0.0.1"}} Config OK **metric log** 2017-03-02T11:30:15+08:00 DBG Publish: { "@timestamp": "2017-03-02T03:30:15.007Z", "beat": { "hostname": "ukgrafana-test1", "name": "ukgrafana-test1", "version": "5.2.1" }, "fields": { "dc": "slough", "env": "test", "type": "nginx" }, "metricset": { "host": "127.0.0.1", "module": "nginx", "name": "stubstatus", "rtt": 305 }, "nginx": { "stubstatus": { "accepts": 7, "active": 1, "current": 1, "dropped": 0, "handled": 7, "hostname": "127.0.0.1", "reading": 0, "requests": 15, "waiting": 0, "writing": 1 } }, "type": "metricsets" } ---
**Author:** ![ruflin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ruflin/32/3116_2.png) [@ruflin](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ruflin)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2017, 12:23pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-cant-collect-nginx-metrics/76911/4 "2017-03-03T12:23:01Z")
In your example above, the line for the `server_status_path` is commented out. Is that just copy/paste problem? ---
**Author:** ![Robin\_Guo](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/robin_guo/32/42297_2.png) [@Robin\_Guo](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Robin_Guo)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2017, 6:41am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-cant-collect-nginx-metrics/76911/5 "2017-03-04T06:41:05Z")
I uncommented server\_status\_path="nginx-status" befoe and set the location as /nginx-status within nginx.conf, but can't get the metrics, that's why I use the default server\_status\_path .. ---
**Author:** ![ruflin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ruflin/32/3116_2.png) [@ruflin](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ruflin)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2017, 2:39pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-cant-collect-nginx-metrics/76911/6 "2017-03-06T14:39:49Z")
That sounds like a bug ☹ Could you open a Github issue so we can investigate this one further? Please add there the config you used for metricbeat and nginx that didn't work. ---
**Author:** ![Robin\_Guo](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/robin_guo/32/42297_2.png) [@Robin\_Guo](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Robin_Guo)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2017, 10:14am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-cant-collect-nginx-metrics/76911/7 "2017-03-07T10:14:23Z")
> [@ruflin](#): > > nd nginx that didn't wo sure, I'll do it soon. Thanks ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2017, 10:14am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-cant-collect-nginx-metrics/76911/8 "2017-04-04T10:14:36Z")
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