# How to see nginx rps (requests per second) **URL:** \ **Category:** NGINX\ **Created:** [January 5, 2012, 11:02am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-see-nginx-rps-requests-per-second/215472 "2012-01-05T11:02:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![luislavena](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/0ea827/32.png) [@luislavena](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/luislavena)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2012, 11:02am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-see-nginx-rps-requests-per-second/215472/1 "2012-01-05T11:02:02Z")
Hi Guys, I have enable stub module and location /status/ in nginx.conf All I see just : Active connections: 1 server accepts handled requests 478077 478077 478271 Reading: 0 Writing: 1 Waiting: 0 How can I know which values is the rps of the nginx server ? Thanks guys. Posted at Nginx Forum: > **[How to see nginx rps (requests per second)](https://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,220831,220831#msg-220831)** > > Hi Guys, I have enable stub module and location /status/ in nginx.conf All I see just : Active connections: 1 server accepts handled requests 478077 478077 478271 Reading: 0 Writing: 1 Waiting: 0 How can I know whi ---
**Author:** ![atrus](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/67e7ee/32.png) [@atrus](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/atrus)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2012, 11:03am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-see-nginx-rps-requests-per-second/215472/2 "2012-01-05T11:03:17Z")
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**Author:** ![atrus](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/67e7ee/32.png) [@atrus](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/atrus)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2012, 11:41am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-see-nginx-rps-requests-per-second/215472/3 "2012-01-05T11:41:45Z")
Hi, I beleive the stub module gives the number of requests since nginx was last reloaded (or started). To get the number of rps, you have to query the stub module each second and substract the old value from the current value. Regards, Posted at Nginx Forum: > **[Re: How to see nginx rps (requests per second)](https://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,220831,220834#msg-220834)** > > Hi Guys, I have enable stub module and location /status/ in nginx.conf All I see just : Active connections: 1 server accepts handled requests 478077 478077 478271 Reading: 0 Writing: 1 Waiting: 0 How can I know whi ---
**Author:** ![atrus](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/67e7ee/32.png) [@atrus](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/atrus)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2012, 3:13pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-see-nginx-rps-requests-per-second/215472/4 "2012-01-05T15:13:01Z")
Thanks Yogui. Is there any other ways to do this automatically instead of manually subtract ?! I want to see in live. Posted at Nginx Forum: > **[Re: How to see nginx rps (requests per second)](https://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,220831,220843#msg-220843)** > > Hi Guys, I have enable stub module and location /status/ in nginx.conf All I see just : Active connections: 1 server accepts handled requests 478077 478077 478271 Reading: 0 Writing: 1 Waiting: 0 How can I know whi ---
**Author:** ![atrus](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/67e7ee/32.png) [@atrus](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/atrus)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2012, 2:56pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-see-nginx-rps-requests-per-second/215472/5 "2012-01-07T14:56:08Z")
If you’ve logging enabled in some sort, you could use a Visual Log Analyzer, I know some of them work for Apache-style logs, but it requires the overhead of having logging enabled for your webserver. Such log-analysers don’t need many resources, as they don’t require any interaction with requests served by nginx, they just read the logs nginx produces every x seconds. Posted at Nginx Forum: > **[Re: How to see nginx rps (requests per second)](https://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,220831,220905#msg-220905)** > > Hi Guys, I have enable stub module and location /status/ in nginx.conf All I see just : Active connections: 1 server accepts handled requests 478077 478077 478271 Reading: 0 Writing: 1 Waiting: 0 How can I know whi ---
**Author:** ![atrus](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/67e7ee/32.png) [@atrus](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/atrus)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2012, 3:04pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-see-nginx-rps-requests-per-second/215472/6 "2012-01-06T15:04:47Z")
On Jan 5, 2012, at 9:12 AM, atrus wrote: > Is there any other ways to do this automatically instead of manually > subtract ?! I want to see in live. we have some command line ruby/perl scripts that do this, pretty simple. If you wanted to do this “in” nginx, I guess the easiest way would be using Lua that did a location\_capture of stub\_status and cached the value ( using [GitHub - nginxinc/nginx-wiki: ARCHIVED -- Source for the now archived NGINX Wiki section of https://www.nginx.com · GitHub](http://wiki.nginx.org/HttpLuaModule#ngx.shared.DICT) maybe). Or, have a script that polls nginx stub status every x seconds and writes it out to a static file that nginx can serve. I’d rather nginx just provide the raw data and I can slice and dice it for my own needs. –Brian ---
**Author:** ![atrus](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/67e7ee/32.png) [@atrus](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/atrus)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2012, 3:36pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-see-nginx-rps-requests-per-second/215472/7 "2012-01-07T15:36:20Z")
@atrus Please remember that what you are looking for is a “human” value, as opposed to the snapshot type of values the server can reliably provide. The reason why nginx does not provide what you are looking for may be that the server would have to provide several intervals to satisfy everyone (second, millisecond, minute, hour, etc.), and that is neither practical nor reliable. Such data could also be misleading, depending on your use case. From a server point of view, the best thing to do was to give a total number of requests served and let the admins do the math as they see fit. However, the stub status module provides easy-to-read data that you can parse with a script in a loop, or such a script could dump the stats in a database and you could then read that. That is the best long-term solution to your problem. Please remember too that this database does not need to be SQL, it could be RRD-based for example, or just plain files, whatever suits you best. Regards, Posted at Nginx Forum: > **[Re: How to see nginx rps (requests per second)](https://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,220831,220908#msg-220908)** > > Hi Guys, I have enable stub module and location /status/ in nginx.conf All I see just : Active connections: 1 server accepts handled requests 478077 478077 478271 Reading: 0 Writing: 1 Waiting: 0 How can I know whi ---
**Author:** ![atrus](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/67e7ee/32.png) [@atrus](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/atrus)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2012, 7:19pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-see-nginx-rps-requests-per-second/215472/8 "2012-01-07T19:19:33Z")
atrus wrote in post #1039525: > Hi Guys, > > I have enable stub module and location /status/ in nginx.conf > > All I see just : > > Active connections: 1 > server accepts handled requests > 478077 478077 478271 > Reading: 0 Writing: 1 Waiting: 0 > > How can I know which values is the rps of the nginx server ? > > Thanks guys. > > Posted at Nginx Forum: > [http://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,220831,220831#msg-220831](http://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,220831,220831#msg-220831) If you are just interested in knowing Request per second and if you have logging enabled then I would suggest using netcat. you just need to tail the log file and then use the netcat to count the lines and it would give you the details you need. Since the tail by default updates every 1 second you will get what you need.