Overview

This check monitors the Kubernetes NGINX Ingress Controller. To monitor the F5 NGINX Ingress Controller, set up the Datadog Prometheus integration to monitor desired metrics from the list provided by the NGINX Prometheus Exporter.

Setup

Installation

The nginx-ingress-controller check is included in the Datadog Agent package, so you do not need to install anything else on your server.

Configuration

Metric collection

By default, NGINX metrics are collected by the nginx-ingress-controller check, but for convenience you might want to run the regular nginx check on the ingress controller.

You can achieve this by making the NGINX status page reachable from the Agent. To do this, use the nginx-status-ipv4-whitelist setting on the controller and add Autodiscovery annotations to the controller pod.

For example these annotations, enable both the nginx and nginx-ingress-controller checks and the log collection:

See the sample nginx_ingress_controller.d/conf.yaml for all available configuration options.

Note: For nginx-ingress-controller 0.23.0+ versions, the nginx server listening in port 18080 was removed, it can be restored by adding the following http-snippet to the configuration configmap:

  http-snippet: |
    server {
      listen 18080;

      location /nginx_status {
        allow all;
        stub_status on;
      }

      location / {
        return 404;
      }
    }

Note: Histogram metrics (like nginx_ingress.controller.response.* metrics) are not collected by default and require the additional collect_nginx_histograms instance config parameter to be set to true. The parameter defaults to false because the histogram metrics are known to have high tag cardinality.

Log collection

Available for Agent versions >6.0

Collecting logs is disabled by default in the Datadog Agent. To enable it, see Kubernetes log collection.

Validation

Run the Agent’s status subcommand and look for nginx_ingress_controller under the Checks section.

Data Collected

Metrics

Events

The NGINX Ingress Controller does not include any events.

Service Checks

The NGINX Ingress Controller does not include any service checks.

Troubleshooting

Need help? Contact Datadog support.