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F5 NGINX Kubernetes Ingress real-time activity and APIΒΆ

Objective: Show the NGINX Plus Dashboard and API

NGINX Plus includes a real-time activity monitoring interface that provides key load and performance metrics. Using a simple RESTful JSON interface, it is very easy to connect these stats to live dashboards and third-party monitoring tools.

Source: https://www.nginx.com/products/nginx/live-activity-monitoring/

Live Example: https://demo.nginx.com/

The ngx_http_api_module module (1.13.3) provides REST API for accessing various status information, configuring upstream server groups on-the-fly, and managing key-value pairs without the need of reconfiguring nginx.

Source: https://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_api_module.html

Live Example: https://demo.nginx.com/swagger-ui/

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Why:

API and Analytics are production level first-class citizens. Highlighting these differentiates the commercial offerings from opensource.

How:

NGINX Ingress Controller Dashboard and API:
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