Show HN: Real-time, top-like metrics for Nginx (opens in new tab)

For those who didn't know about it, please check Apachetop:

https://github.com/JeremyJones/Apachetop

I use it for both Apache and Nginx.

Side question: I saw a project similar to this, but display top in your terminal/browser with a beautiful visual dashboard. I remember seeing it here on HN recently but I can't find it. I mention that because it has a non-ascii visual component. I am interested in looking at the two source codes and see if I could make pretty dashboard out of it...

EDIT:

Thanks for finding the, HNers. I also think it is possible to look at IPythoNoteBook integration.

How about porting it to LUA and embed directly in nginx?

Very cool tool. It seems to be clearing the screen every time it runs though which isn't great, especially when it crashes that hides the backtrace. Consider using ncurses?

On a different note... developers, please use Python 3. Several Linux distributions are now using Py3 as their main python and those scripts with an "env python" hashbang will not work.

Porting your codebase to be python 2+3 compatible is dead simple, and most of the time it is just a matter of using print("foo") instead of print "foo". So please be considerate.

Nice. You can get similar for any HTTP interface via Varnish and Varnishtop, if you're interested, as well.

Does it matter which version of python we use?

Looks cool!

Installation instructions would be a nice plus

This is nice, congrats! Would also like some performance metrics, or at least exec time per script

Very cool put it on pypi it will be useful with my blogs in aws

I think this is a great idea. Very useful, thank you.

Cool! Why is this not on pypi?

Am I the only one that bothered when tools like this do not give you some insight on resource consumption/limit?

Even if it's just parsing logs via sqlite, I still want to see the limitations and X per Y usage metrics to see if it can handle monitoring high traffic domain without impacting performance.