# Nginx status output

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/nginx-status-output/137425>\
**Category:** NGINX\
**Created:** [May 13, 2008, 1:51am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/nginx-status-output/137425 "2008-05-13T01:51:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![mike](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/58f4c7/32.png) [@mike](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mike)\
**Post date:** [May 13, 2008, 1:51am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/nginx-status-output/137425/1 "2008-05-13T01:51:28Z")

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Active connections: 6  
server accepts handled requests  
1161356 1161356 1160523  
Reading: 2 Writing: 4 Waiting: 0

What are those 3 numbers?

1. server accepts
2. handled
3. requests

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**Author:** ![mike](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/58f4c7/32.png) [@mike](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mike)\
**Post date:** [May 13, 2008, 2:52am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/nginx-status-output/137425/2 "2008-05-13T02:52:53Z")

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I believe it’s

number of tcp connections accepted,  
number of tcp connections handled (i’m guessing this will be less than  
the accepted count if there are some connections using keepalive)  
number of http requests handled (may be higher than accepted/handled  
because of pipelining / keepalive)

Cheers

Dave

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**Author:** ![mike](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/58f4c7/32.png) [@mike](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mike)\
**Post date:** [May 13, 2008, 10:36am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/nginx-status-output/137425/3 "2008-05-13T10:36:51Z")

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On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 10:40:38AM +1000, Dave C. wrote:

> I believe it’s
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> number of tcp connections accepted,  
> number of tcp connections handled (i’m guessing this will be less than  
> the accepted count if there are some connections using keepalive)

No, handled may be less than accepted, because nginx may drop  
connections,  
if there are not enough worker\_connections.

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**Author:** ![mike](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/58f4c7/32.png) [@mike](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mike)\
**Post date:** [May 14, 2008, 2:31am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/nginx-status-output/137425/4 "2008-05-14T02:31:02Z")

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Does anyone have any additional monitoring patches or ideas on knowing  
what’s going on inside of nginx, besides for error and access log  
output processing?

It would be nice to know any relevant information…