# nginx/nginx-prometheus-exporter

NGINX Prometheus Exporter for NGINX and NGINX Plus

Repository: https://github.com/nginx/nginx-prometheus-exporter
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/nginx-prometheus-exporter
Language: Go
License: Apache-2.0
License Family: permissive
Topics: prometheus, prometheus-exporter, nginx
Last push: 2026-08-14T09:51:40+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 94/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 97, release rhythm 86, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3017, "days_push": 19, "days_rel": 19, "gap_med": 74.0, "n_releases_24m": 7}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 2012, forks 369 (observed 2026-08-28T04:06:05.157100+00:00)

## What it is
A Prometheus exporter that exposes NGINX and NGINX Plus metrics for monitoring. It scrapes NGINX's status endpoints and serves them as Prometheus metrics.

## Use cases
- monitor nginx with prometheus
- export nginx plus metrics
- scrape nginx stub status metrics
- monitor nginx connections and upstreams
- set up nginx observability in kubernetes

## When to choose
- you run NGINX or NGINX Plus and use Prometheus for monitoring
- you need detailed NGINX Plus metrics like server zones, upstreams, and SSL stats
- you want an official exporter maintained by NGINX

## When to avoid
- you use a different web server like Apache or HAProxy
- you monitor metrics via a different system than Prometheus
- you need NGINX Ingress Controller metrics, which are handled by a separate exporter

## Facets
- artifact type: service
- maturity: active
- function: monitoring
- domain: monitoring
- platform: go, self-hosted
- tags: prometheus-exporter, nginx, observability, nginx-plus, devops, web-server, linux, docker

## Member repositories
- nginx/nginx-prometheus-exporter (main) score 94

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:05.157100+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T03:01:02.688219+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/nginx/nginx-prometheus-exporter (fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:05.157100+00:00, sha 87500aef44be)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.