NAME

       prometheus-nginx-exporter - Prometheus exporter for NGINX web server metrics

SYNOPSIS

       prometheus-nginx-exporter [<flags>]

DESCRIPTION

OPTIONS

       -h, --help
              Show context-sensitive help (also try --help-long and --help-man).

       --web.systemd-socket
              Use systemd socket activation listeners instead of port listeners (Linux only).

       --web.listen-address=:9113
              Addresses on which to expose metrics and web interface. Repeatable for multiple addresses.

       --web.config.file=""
              Path    to    configuration    file    that    can    enable    TLS    or   authentication.   See:
              https://github.com/prometheus/exporter-toolkit/blob/master/docs/web-configuration.md

       --web.telemetry-path="/metrics"
              Path under which to expose metrics.

       --nginx.plus
              Start the exporter for NGINX Plus. By default, the exporter is started for NGINX.

       --nginx.scrape-uri=http://127.0.0.1:8080/stub_status
              A URI or unix domain socket path for  scraping  NGINX  or  NGINX  Plus  metrics.  For  NGINX,  the
              stub_status  page  must  be  available  through the URI. For NGINX Plus -- the API. Repeatable for
              multiple URIs.

       --nginx.ssl-verify
              Perform SSL certificate verification.

       --nginx.ssl-ca-cert=""
              Path to the PEM encoded CA certificate file used to validate the servers SSL certificate.

       --nginx.ssl-client-cert=""
              Path to the PEM encoded client certificate file to use when connecting to the server.

       --nginx.ssl-client-key=""
              Path to the PEM encoded client certificate key file to use when connecting to the server.

       --nginx.timeout=5s
              A timeout for scraping metrics from NGINX or NGINX Plus.

       --prometheus.const-label=PROMETHEUS.CONST-LABEL
              Label that will be used in every metric. Format is label=value. It can be repeated multiple times.

       --log.level=info
              Only log messages with the given severity or above. One of: [debug, info, warn, error]

       --log.format=logfmt
              Output format of log messages. One of: [logfmt, json]

       --version
              Show application version.

prometheus-nginx-exporter 1.1.0                     July 2025                       PROMETHEUS-NGINX-EXPORTER(1)