Configuring Nginx for Datadog

• SSH into the server
• Go to /etc/nginx/conf.d
• sudo vi datadog.conf
• Copy and paste this configuration

server {
  listen 81;
  server_name localhost;

  access_log off;
  allow 127.0.0.1;
  deny all;

  location /nginx_status {
    # Choose your status module

    # freely available with open source NGINX
    stub_status;

    # for open source NGINX < version 1.7.5
    # stub_status on;

    # available only with NGINX Plus
    # status;
  }
}

• Restart Nginx sudo service nginx restart
• Go to /etc/datadog-agent/conf.d/nginx.d
• Create the conf file sudo cp conf.yaml.example conf.yaml
• Restart the agent sudo service datadog-agent restart