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How HN took it
1 positive, 12 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 5 critical, out of 18 comments about the project. Thread score -0.19.
Idea: 1 for, 2 againstPerformance: 0 for, 1 againstExecution: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Fills a long-wanted gap for a lightweight nginx stats tool
From 1 comment
This is the tool I've wanted (and half written 3-4 times) my whole career. From reading the github it looks lightweight, not a big infrastructure addition, and that it helps you…
jrumbut on HN
Easier to ship as a single binary
From 1 comment
I've never had issues shipping Rust binaries to people, unlike in Python where they usually have to install dependencies.
Kaze404 on HN
Objections
Not truly real time; it only reads logs already written
From 2 comments
Hmmm... looks like nothing more than a weblog analyzer. Someone correct me if I'm wrong. It's not "real time" since it can only report on what the web-server has done not what it…
jimjag on HNThat's not "real time"! And definitely won't behave well if the processing takes more than 2 seconds (imagine log files of many millions rows)
gregoriol on HN
Limited compared with ngxtop; does not tail log files
From 1 comment
It does seem to be that except it doesn't "tail log files" like the original (see limitations at the bottom if the readme.
dazzawazza on HN
Rewrite rather than contributing to ngxtop seems unnecessary
From 1 comment
> This tool is a rewrite of ngxtop to make it more easily installed and hopefully quicker. Why make a whole new tool with limitations instead of improving the existing one?
hk__2 on HN
Requests
Add a screenshot to the README
From 2 comments
I wouldn't mind a screenshot before installing it.
eterps on HNI thought the same thing. I was expecting to see some kind of screenshot so I could have a glimpse of the software. EDIT: 1# I'm gonna compile it and provide a screenshot via a…
fb03 on HN
Document the sqlite3 build dependency
From 1 comment
I thought the same thing. I was expecting to see some kind of screenshot so I could have a glimpse of the software. EDIT: 1# I'm gonna compile it and provide a screenshot via a…
fb03 on HN
Tail log files for live updates
From 1 comment
Thanks for the feedback. I wanted to capture the same idea as the original tool I listed in the README. In the future I hope to add functionality to tail a log file in real time…
squiguy7 on HN
Questions
How does it compare with GoAccess?
From 2 comments
How does this compare to goaccess? Similar tool that I've used briefly. One issue I had was how complicated it was, I'm assuming since this is nginx specific it's simpler.
deft on HNMaybe not as lightweight, but GoAccess (https://github.com/allinurl/goaccess) does an awesome job at parsing the logs and displaying statistics, works for nginx and other…
gregoriol on HN
Is there a real-time nginx top showing connections and resource usage?
From 1 comment
Interesting, but I would have thought "top" for nginx would be a tool that shows you all the connections, paths, and resource usage live, like the "top" command. Is there a tool…
dheera on HN
Alternatives named
GoAccess
From 1 comment
Maybe not as lightweight, but GoAccess (https://github.com/allinurl/goaccess) does an awesome job at parsing the logs and displaying statistics, works for nginx and other…
gregoriol on HN
ngxtop
From 1 comment
It seems to be a rewrite of ngxtop https://github.com/lebinh/ngxtop
theblackcat1002 on HN
nginx stub_status
From 1 comment
Open source nginx has stub_status. It's just not very (very not) featureful. https://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_stub_status_module.html
oefrha on HN
Apache mod_status
From 1 comment
What frustrates me about Apache's mod_status is that it's powered by a normal request handler. If all the child workers are busy, your request for a status report will timeout,…
cholmon on HN