Export NGINX instance metrics

Overview

F5 NGINX Agent now includes an embedded OpenTelemetry collector, streamlining observability and metric collection for NGINX instances. With this feature, you can collect:

• Metrics from NGINX Plus and NGINX Open Source
• Host metrics (CPU, memory, disk, and network activity) from VMs or Containers

The OpenTelemetry exporter is enabled by default. Once a valid connection to the management plane is established, the Agent will automatically begin exporting metrics.

Key benefits

• Seamless Integration: No need to deploy an external OpenTelemetry Collector. All components are embedded within the Agent for streamlined observability.
• Standardized Protocol: Support for OpenTelemetry standards ensures interoperability with a wide range of observability backends, including Jaeger, Prometheus, Splunk, and more.

Verify that metrics are exported

You can validate that metrics are successfully exported by using the methods below:

• NGINX One dashboard

  • When an instance has connected to NGINX One Console See: Connect to NGINX One Console, you should see metrics showing on the NGINX One Console Dashboard.

• Agent logs

  Check the OpenTelemetry Collector logs for confirmation of successful metric processing:

  1. Open the file: /var/log/nginx-agent/opentelemetry-collector-agent.log

  2. Look for the following logs:

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     Everything is ready. Begin running and processing data.