Install the Nginx (Legacy) App and View the Dashboards
This page has instructions for installing the Sumo App for Nginx (Legacy), as well as descriptions and examples for each of the dashboards. These instructions assume you have already set up the collection as described in the Collect Logs and Metrics for Nginx (Legacy) page.
Install the App
Dashboard Filter with Template Variables
Template variables provide dynamic dashboards that rescope data on the fly. As you apply variables to troubleshoot through your dashboard, you can view dynamic changes to the data for a fast resolution to the root cause. For more information, see the Filter with template variables help page.
Nginx (Legacy) - Overview
The Nginx (Legacy) - Overview dashboard provides an at-a-glance view of the NGINX server access locations, error logs along with connection metrics.
Use this dashboard to:
- Gain insights into originated traffic location by region. This can help you allocate computer resources to different regions according to their needs.
- Gain insights into your Nginx health using Critical Errors and Status of Nginx Server.
- Get insights into Active and dropped connections.
Nginx (Legacy) - Error Logs Analysis
The Nginx (Legacy) - Error Logs Analysis dashboard provides a high-level view of log level breakdowns, comparisons, and trends. The panels also show the geographic locations of clients and clients with critical messages, new connections and outliers, client requests, request trends, and request outliers.
Use this dashboard to:
- Track requests from clients. A request is a message asking for a resource, such as a page or an image.
- To track and view client geographic locations generating errors.
- Track critical alerts and emergency error alerts.
Nginx (Legacy) - Logs Timeline Analysis
The Nginx (Legacy) - Logs Timeline Analysis dashboard provides a high-level view of the activity and health of Nginx servers on your network. Dashboard panels display visual graphs and detailed information on traffic volume and distribution, responses over time, as well as time comparisons for visitor locations and server hits.
Use this dashboard to:
- To understand the traffic distribution across servers, provide insights for resource planning by analyzing data volume and bytes served.
- Gain insights into originated traffic location by region. This can help you allocate compute resources to different regions according to their needs.
Nginx (Legacy) - Outlier Analysis
The Nginx (Legacy) - Outlier Analysis dashboard provides a high-level view of Nginx server outlier metrics for bytes served, number of visitors, and server errors. You can select the time interval over which outliers are aggregated, then hover the cursor over the graph to display detailed information for that point in time.
Use this dashboard to:
- Detect outliers in your infrastructure with Sumo Logic’s machine learning algorithm.
- To identify outliers in incoming traffic and the number of errors encountered by your servers.
Nginx (Legacy) - Threat Intel
The Nginx (Legacy) - Threat Intel dashboard provides an at-a-glance view of threats to Nginx servers on your network. Dashboard panels display the threat count over a selected time period, geographic locations where threats occurred, source breakdown, actors responsible for threats, severity, and a correlation of IP addresses, method, and status code of threats.
Use this dashboard to:
- To gain insights and understand threats in incoming traffic and discover potential IOCs. Incoming traffic requests are analyzed using the Sumo - Crowdstrikes threat feed.
Nginx (Legacy) - Web Server Operations
The Nginx (Legacy) - Web Server Operations dashboard provides a high-level view combined with detailed information on the top ten bots, geographic locations, and data for clients with high error rates, server errors over time, and non 200 response code status codes. Dashboard panels also show information on server error logs, error log levels, error responses by a server, and the top URIs responsible for 404 responses.
Use this dashboard to:
- Gain insights into Client, Server Responses on Nginx Server. This helps you identify errors in Nginx Server.
- To identify geo locations of all Client errors. This helps you identify client location causing errors and helps you to block client IPs.
Nginx (Legacy) - Visitor Access Types
The Nginx (Legacy) - Visitor Access Types dashboard provides insights into visitor platform types, browsers, and operating systems, as well as the most popular mobile devices, PC and Mac versions used.
Use this dashboard to:
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Understand which platform and browsers are used to gain access to your infrastructure.
These insights can be useful for planning in which browsers, platforms, and operating systems (OS) should be supported by different software services.
Nginx (Legacy) - Visitor Locations
The Nginx (Legacy) - Visitor Locations dashboard provides a high-level view of Nginx visitor geographic locations both worldwide and in the United States. Dashboard panels also show graphic trends for visits by country over time and visits by US region over time.
Use this dashboard to:
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Gain insights into geographic locations of your user base. This is useful for resource planning in different regions across the globe.
Nginx (Legacy) - Visitor Traffic Insight
The Nginx (Legacy) - Visitor Traffic Insight dashboard provides detailed information on the top documents accessed, top referrers, top search terms from popular search engines, and the media types served.
Use this dashboard to:
- To understand the type of content that is frequently requested by users.
- It helps in allocating IT resources according to the content types.