Nginx metrics based on path and method

[rjshrjndrn]

Hi,
Thank you for this awesome plugin. Helped me to get rid of logspout, logstash and statsd.
But some small clarifications.

1. is it possible to get custom metrics( like per path or incoming ip/server)
2. Is it possible to gather metrics with methods(GET, POST, OPTIONS)

and one doubt,
while looking at nginx_http_requests_total I saw

nginx_http_requests_total{host="xxx.yyy.com",instance="10.0.0.156:9145",job="nginx_prom",status="200"} 58408
and
nginx_http_requests_total{instance="10.0.0.156:9145",job="nginx_prom",status="200"} 138

one with instance and one without. What's this?

I am running nginx in docker swarm, with 6 replicas, and prometheus dns_sd to discover nodes.

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Thank you.

[rjshrjndrn]

I found the solution. Thank you for the awesome plugin once again. Preparing documentation, How I did it for nginx running in a swarm. If you're interested I can raise PR. It'll be an honor.

[rjshrjndrn]

Sorry,
I got the solution for 1 and 2. But the doubt is still not clarified. What's that 2 metrics with same name and different tags?

[knyar]

A time series in Prometheus is identified by a metric name and a combination of labels, so it's completely normal to have several metrics with the same name and different labels.

In your example it seems like you either added or removed the host label at some point.