Show HN: Top, but for Nginx

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Post by squiguy7 » Tue, Jun 09, 2020, 1:33 PM UTC

Show HN: Top, but for Nginx
github.com

Re: Show HN: Top, but for Nginx

#2

Post by eterps » Tue, Jun 09, 2020, 2:12 PM UTC

I wouldn't mind a screenshot before installing it.

Re: Show HN: Top, but for Nginx

#3

Post by jrumbut » Tue, Jun 09, 2020, 2:14 PM UTC

This is the tool I've wanted (and half written 3-4 times) my whole career. From reading the github it looks lightweight, not a big infrastructure addition, and that it helps you figure out wtf is going on with the web server.

Regarding the branding, for me top is a real-time tool rather than a logging tool. I was picturing something that may have been more useful for older style Apache httpd installs where you have several virtual hosts on a server and you'd want to know who is hogging the resources or causing the problems.

Re: Show HN: Top, but for Nginx

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Post by theblackcat1002 » Tue, Jun 09, 2020, 2:20 PM UTC

eterps wrote: post #2

I wouldn't mind a screenshot before installing it.

It seems to be a rewrite of ngxtop

https://github.com/lebinh/ngxtop

Re: Show HN: Top, but for Nginx

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Jun 09, 2020, 2:33 PM UTC

jrumbut wrote: post #3

This is the tool I've wanted (and half written 3-4 times) my whole career. From reading the github it looks lightweight, not a big infrastructure addition, and that it helps you figure out wtf is going on with the web server. Regarding the branding, for me top is a real-time tool rather than a logging tool. I was picturing something that may have been more useful for older style Apache httpd installs where you have s…

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Re: Show HN: Top, but for Nginx

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Post by squiguy7 » Tue, Jun 09, 2020, 2:34 PM UTC

jrumbut wrote: post #3

This is the tool I've wanted (and half written 3-4 times) my whole career. From reading the github it looks lightweight, not a big infrastructure addition, and that it helps you figure out wtf is going on with the web server. Regarding the branding, for me top is a real-time tool rather than a logging tool. I was picturing something that may have been more useful for older style Apache httpd installs where you have s…

Thanks for the feedback. I wanted to capture the same idea as the original tool I listed in the README. In the future I hope to add functionality to tail a log file in real time and do live updates of the stats. This is where the idea of top comes from.

Re: Show HN: Top, but for Nginx

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Post by gregoriol » Tue, Jun 09, 2020, 2:39 PM UTC

Maybe not as lightweight, but GoAccess (https://github.com/allinurl/goaccess) does an awesome job at parsing the logs and displaying statistics, works for nginx and other webservers too

Re: Show HN: Top, but for Nginx

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Post by fb03 » Tue, Jun 09, 2020, 2:43 PM UTC

eterps wrote: post #2

I wouldn't mind a screenshot before installing it.

I thought the same thing. I was expecting to see some kind of screenshot so I could have a glimpse of the software.

EDIT:

1# I'm gonna compile it and provide a screenshot via a pull request.

2# Compilation failed because it needed sqlite3 headers and this is not reported in the app. I'm gonna edit that in the readme too :)

This year (specially with the whole covid thingy) I set a goal to contribute more to open source. I'm trying to find every little issue I can find and contribute to :P

Re: Show HN: Top, but for Nginx

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Post by squiguy7 » Tue, Jun 09, 2020, 2:44 PM UTC

gregoriol wrote: post #7

Maybe not as lightweight, but GoAccess ( https://github.com/allinurl/goaccess ) does an awesome job at parsing the logs and displaying statistics, works for nginx and other webservers too

I hadn't heard of this tool but it looks much more complete! Thanks for sharing.

Re: Show HN: Top, but for Nginx

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Post by squiguy7 » Tue, Jun 09, 2020, 2:45 PM UTC

eterps wrote: post #2

I wouldn't mind a screenshot before installing it.

I can work on adding that into the README now.