How to Monitor Apache

Keep track of your Apache server performance metrics such as requests per second, active connections and more.

Apache provides various metrics thru their status page (requires the status module). Setting up monitoring for Apache with Nixstats is easy, you can read more at our helpdesk.

Apache Metrics

The following metrics are available from the Apache monitoring plugin. Source code is available on GitHub.

  • CacheRemoveHitCount

  • Uptime

  • IdleWorkers

  • BytesPerReq

  • CacheCurrentEntries

  • Total kBytes

  • CacheIndexesPerSubcaches

  • ClosingWorkers

  • CacheSharedMemory

  • Total Accesses

  • ServerUptimeSeconds

  • CacheStoreCount

  • BytesPerSec

  • CacheExpireCount

  • CacheReplaceCount

  • DurationPerReq

  • ParentServerConfigGeneration

  • LoggingWorkers

  • CacheRetrieveMissCount

  • ParentServerMPMGeneration

  • CacheDiscardCount

  • CacheRetrieveHitCount

  • CacheSubcaches

  • CleanupWorkers

  • FinishingWorkers

  • CacheRemoveMissCount

  • DnsWorkers

  • ReadingWorkers

  • Total Duration

  • WritingWorkers

  • requests_per_second

  • BusyWorkers

  • KeepaliveWorkers