---
name: "prometheus-nginx-exporter"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "prometheus-nginx-exporter"
version: "1.4.1-1+b5"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/prometheus-nginx-exporter"
---

# prometheus-nginx-exporter(1)

Prometheus exporter for NGINX web server metrics

## NAME

prometheus-nginx-exporter - Prometheus exporter for NGINX web server metrics

## SYNOPSIS

- **prometheus-nginx-exporter \[\<flags\>\]**

  ## DESCRIPTION

## OPTIONS

- **-h, --help**

  Show context-sensitive help (also try --help-long and --help-man).

- **--web.systemd-socket**

  Use systemd socket activation listeners instead of port listeners (Linux only).

- **--web.listen-address=:9113**

  Addresses on which to expose metrics and web interface. Repeatable for multiple addresses. Examples: \`:9100\` or \`\[::1\]:9100\` for http, \`vsock://:9100\` for vsock

- **--web.config.file=""**

  Path to configuration file that can enable TLS or authentication. See: https://github.com/prometheus/exporter-toolkit/blob/master/docs/web-configuration.md

- **--web.telemetry-path="/metrics"**

  Path under which to expose metrics.

- **--nginx.plus**

  Start the exporter for NGINX Plus. By default, the exporter is started for NGINX.

- **--nginx.scrape-uri=http://127.0.0.1:8080/stub\_status**

  A URI or unix domain socket path for scraping NGINX or NGINX Plus metrics. For NGINX, the stub\_status page must be available through the URI. For NGINX Plus -- the API. Repeatable for multiple URIs.

- **--nginx.ssl-verify**

  Perform SSL certificate verification.

- **--nginx.ssl-ca-cert=""**

  Path to the PEM encoded CA certificate file used to validate the servers SSL certificate.

- **--nginx.ssl-client-cert=""**

  Path to the PEM encoded client certificate file to use when connecting to the server.

- **--nginx.ssl-client-key=""**

  Path to the PEM encoded client certificate key file to use when connecting to the server.

- **--nginx.timeout=5s**

  A timeout for scraping metrics from NGINX or NGINX Plus.

- **--prometheus.const-label=PROMETHEUS.CONST-LABEL**

  Label that will be used in every metric. Format is label=value. It can be repeated multiple times.

- **--log.level=info**

  Only log messages with the given severity or above. One of: \[debug, info, warn, error\]

- **--log.format=logfmt**

  Output format of log messages. One of: \[logfmt, json\]

- **--version**

  Show application version.