nginx-module-vts vs nginx-lua-prometheus

nginx-module-vts

Nginx virtual host traffic status module (by vozlt)

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nginx-lua-prometheus

Prometheus metric library for Nginx written in Lua (by knyar)

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nginx-module-vts		nginx-lua-prometheus
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4	Mentions	3
3,122	Stars	1,410
-	Growth	-
3.6	Activity	3.3
3 months ago	Latest Commit	8 days ago
C	Language	Lua
BSD 2-clause "Simplified" License	License	MIT License

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nginx-module-vts

Posts with mentions or reviews of nginx-module-vts. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-10-16.

Quem mexeu no meu cache?
2 projects | dev.to | 16 Oct 2022

Colete métricas de uso do cache. Quanto mais requests com HIT, melhor vai ser seu cache hit ratio.
Monitoring / stats / analytics for Nginx Proxy Manager
4 projects | /r/selfhosted | 29 Jun 2021

this too https://github.com/vozlt/nginx-module-vts
Metrics from logs. Why?
2 projects | /r/devops | 30 May 2021

I've had reasonable luck with nginx-lua-prometheus and nginx-module-vts. But yea, neither are ideal compared to using something that does this out of the box like HAProxy, Envoy, or Traefik.
NGINX Reverse Proxy Metrics to Monitor
1 project | /r/selfhosted | 19 Jan 2021

Don't forget about nginx-module-vts.

nginx-lua-prometheus

Posts with mentions or reviews of nginx-lua-prometheus. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-05-30.

Kubernetes Nginx Ingress Controller log fields as metric
1 project | /r/sysadmin | 2 Aug 2021

Maybe this could help https://github.com/knyar/nginx-lua-prometheus?
Metrics from logs. Why?
2 projects | /r/devops | 30 May 2021

I've had reasonable luck with nginx-lua-prometheus and nginx-module-vts. But yea, neither are ideal compared to using something that does this out of the box like HAProxy, Envoy, or Traefik.
Question about nginx
1 project | /r/sysadmin | 7 Feb 2021

For monitoring nginx, there's a lua plugin that works pretty well.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing nginx-module-vts and nginx-lua-prometheus you can also consider the following projects:

ngx_http_proxy_connect_module - A forward proxy module for CONNECT request handling

prometheus - The Prometheus monitoring system and time series database.

nginx-proxy-manager-goaccess - NGINX Proxy Manager and Goaccess docker file

Grafana - The open and composable observability and data visualization platform. Visualize metrics, logs, and traces from multiple sources like Prometheus, Loki, Elasticsearch, InfluxDB, Postgres and many more.

ngx-php - ngx-php - Embedded php7 or php8 scripting language for nginx module. Mainline development version of the ngx-php.

lua-resty-auto-ssl - On the fly (and free) SSL registration and renewal inside OpenResty/nginx with Let's Encrypt.

naxsi - NAXSI is an open-source, high performance, low rules maintenance WAF for NGINX

lua-resty-openidc - OpenID Connect Relying Party and OAuth 2.0 Resource Server implementation in Lua for NGINX / OpenResty

Shynet - Modern, privacy-friendly, and detailed web analytics that works without cookies or JS.

apisix - The Cloud-Native API Gateway

ngx_healthcheck_module - nginx module for upstream servers health check. support stream and http upstream. 该模块可以为Nginx提供主动式后端服务器健康检查的功能（同时支持四层和七层后端服务器的健康检测）

cdn-up-and-running - CDN Up and Running - Building a CDN from Scratch to Learn about CDN, Nginx, Lua, Prometheus, Grafana, Load balancing, and Containers.