No status code in the metrics are available from the nginx-gateway-fabric/nginx pod.

[HarishKMedaal]

Hello,

I need some help to export metrics from nginx-gateway-fabric/nginx container to Prometheus.

I have configured nginx-gateway-fabric in EKS cluster and its able to route the traffic to backend pod (using HTTPRoute). Also, able to generate metrics in path /metrics. But for some reason its not generating metrics with status code. Its able to give me the total count.

Please help me configure something which can produce status_code in the metric.

Available metric without status_code in grafana:
nginx_http_requests_total 15789

I have stub_status module in the nginx.conf but its not helping. I came across below module which has everything but not sure how to install it inside a pod.
ngx_http_status_module

Thank You!

[kate-osborn]

Hi @HarishKMedaal,

The metrics for the open-source version of NGINX do not set the status_code for HTTP requests. To get the status_code you need to upgrade to our commercial version NGINX Plus.

Here's the list of metrics that are exposed by NGINX Open-Source: https://github.com/nginx/nginx-prometheus-exporter?tab=readme-ov-file#metrics-for-nginx-oss

Here's the list for NGINX Plus: https://github.com/nginx/nginx-prometheus-exporter?tab=readme-ov-file#metrics-for-nginx-plus

[HarishKMedaal]

Hi @kate-osborn ,

Thank you so much for the details.