Configure ngx_http_accounting_module as nginx module with --add-module when build nginx.

cd /path/to/nginx-src/

git clone https://github.com/Lax/ngx_http_accounting_module.git -b v1.0

./configure --add-module=ngx_http_accounting_module

make && make install

Edit your nginx.conf.

Example:

http{
    # turn on accounting function
    http_accounting  on;
    ...
    server {
        server_name example.com;
        
        # set accounting_id based on server, use variable
        http_accounting_id  $http_host;
        ...
        location / {
            # set accounting_id based on location
            http_accounting_id  accounting_id_str;
            ...
        }
    }
}

syntax: http_accounting on | off

default: http_accounting off

context: http

syntax: http_accounting_id <accounting_id>

default: http_accounting_id default

content: server, location

Specifies current request belongs to which accounting_id.

This directive was first introduced in the v0.1 release, and can use variable in v1.0 and above.

This module write statistics to syslog. You should edit your syslog configuration.

For sample configuration / utils, see: Lax/ngx_http_accounting_module-utils

Apr  8 11:19:46 localhost NgxAccounting: pid:8555|from:1428463159|to:1428463186|accounting_id:default|requests:10|bytes_in:1400|bytes_out:223062|latency_ms:1873|upstream_latency_ms:1873|200:9|302:1

The output contains a list of k/v for the accounting metrics, in the sequence of:

• master : new feathers
• v2-freeze-20110526 : works with nginx version(0.7.xx, 0.8.xx), nginx 0.9 is not tested. didn't work with nginx above 1.0.x.

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