On-demand recording: https://nginx.webex.com/nginx/lsr.php?RCID=4bcbaff57fd6a02e4b3ca249917d3a1f NGINX Amplify is a new diagnostic tool that gives engineers and DevOps professionals visibility and control of NGINX instances and NGINX-delivered applications. Our new product provides insights to help you quickly troubleshoot application health and performance issues within a highly customizable interface. In addition to NGINX metrics, NGINX Amplify provides configuration analysis and reports, configurable alerts, and system-level metrics. Join us in this webinar to learn: * How to quickly install the NGINX Amplify agent on your server or in a container * How to build custom dashboards of metrics gathered from your NGINX instances * How to use advanced filters to pinpoint performance issues

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Technical Deep Dive: Dashboards and Filters
October 19, 2016

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Agenda
• NGINX Amplify service overview
• Feature deep dive: Dashboards
• Feature deep dive: Filters
• Demo
• Q&A

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Webinar speaker
Nick Shadrin
Technical Solutions Architect, NGINX

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NGINX Placement

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What is NGINX Amplify?
SaaS based performance monitoring and
configuration assistance solution native to NGINX

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NGINX Amplify Features
• Lightweight agent and a SaaS based Web UI
• Visualizes NGINX inventory and performance
• Collects every possible NGINX metric
• Custom graphs
• Static analysis of NGINX configuration
• Built-in alerting
• Doubles as simple OS-monitoring tool

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NGINX Amplify Features
• Lightweight agent and a SaaS based Web UI
• Visualizes NGINX inventory and performance
• Collects every possible NGINX metric
• Custom graphs
• Static analysis of NGINX configuration
• Built-in alerting
• Doubles as simple OS-monitoring tool

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Components of NGINX Amplify
• Agent - runs alongside NGINX
• Cloud - contains core services
• Web - presents metrics and graphs
• Graphs
• Dashboards
• Reports
• Alerts

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NGINX Amplify Dashboards

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NGINX Amplify Dashboards
• Single pane of glass view of NGINX performance
• Fully customizable
• Display any collected metrics
• Display metrics from various hosts
• Aggregate data

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NGINX Amplify Filters
• Filters add more granularity
• A filter is run by the agent
• Aggregated filtered metrics are sent to NGINX Amplify Cloud
• Filter configuration uses existing log_format

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NGINX Amplify Filter examples
• Display rate of specific status codes:
• Rate of 401 errors on the auth URL
• Rate of 5xx errors for the host

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NGINX Amplify Filter examples
• Display response time of a page:
• When do we see a slowdown of the reports page?
• Which backend servers work slower with this
application?

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NGINX Amplify Filter examples
• Display request distribution across multiple domains:
• How often users visit www.example.com and
www.example.net?

17. Demo

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More information
• nginx.com/amplify
• nginx.com/blog
• github.com/nginxinc
• github.com/nginxinc/nginx-amplify-agent
• github.com/nginxinc/nginx-amplify-doc

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