[Pkg-nginx-maintainers] Bug#1068764: RFP: nginx-module-vts -- Nginx virtual host traffic status module

[Antoine Beaupre]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
X-Debbugs-Cc: pkg-nginx-maintainers at alioth-lists.debian.net

* Package name    : nginx-module-vts
  Version         : 0.2.2
  Upstream Contact: YoungJoo.Kim <https://github.com/vozlt>
* URL             : https://github.com/vozlt/nginx-module-vts
* License         : BSD-2
  Programming Lang: C
  Description     : Nginx virtual host traffic status module

This is an Nginx module that provides access to virtual host status
information. It contains the current status such as servers,
upstreams, caches. This is similar to the live activity monitoring of
nginx plus. The built-in html is also taken from the demo page of old
version.

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This module provides more in-depth stats than the ones provided by the
built-in statistics module, crippled by its opencore/non-free
counterpart only available in nginx plus.

There's already another nginx exporter in Debian, but it proxies (and
rewrites) the requests to the builtin stats module, with limited
effect. It cannot, for example, count bytes or examine hit ratios, nor
per-vhost usage stats.

I'm not sure I'm going to package this myself, and I don't know if it
should be shipped alongside nginx-full: it seems to me it would be
better as its own standalone module, would love to hear thoughts from
the nginx maintainers as well..

I would definitely need this at torproject.org. We're using nginx more
and more, and the stats we're able to extract from the components
available in debian pale in comparison with what we have in the apache
exporter, for example.