# Server performance metrics

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/server-performance-metrics/200560>\
**Category:** NGINX\
**Created:** [December 15, 2010, 6:25pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/server-performance-metrics/200560 "2010-12-15T18:25:05Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 15, 2010, 6:25pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/server-performance-metrics/200560/1 "2010-12-15T18:25:05Z")

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What’s a good metric that I can look at to see whether or not our Nginx  
server is performing optimally?

I’m attaching an image showing stats for the past week but I’m not clear  
on  
whether or not they would be considered “good”, “ok”, “great” or need a  
lot  
of improvement?

Overall we’re happy with our performance but some users continue to  
complain  
of page loading times (could be any number of things of course), but I  
wanted to send these out and see if there are some things that we should  
pay  
attention to. These graphs represent normal peak loads on our Nginx  
server  
(we peak M-F, Thursdays being our highest).

Currently we have a single Nginx web server serving all static requests  
with  
multiple php app servers in the back end.

Thanks!