Using Nginx Plus alternatives
The Nginx Plus commercial subscription gives you more than just the ngx_http_status module. If you do not need the other perks of the Plus version but crave more metrics, you could explore some of the freely available alternatives.
nginx-module-vts
One way to get more information from inside Nginx is this open source module published on GitHub at https://github.com/vozlt/nginx-module-vts.
The author was clearly inspired by the official ngx_http_status features and even used the same structures and dashboard client-side code (although the older version). This may be actually a good thing because you can start integrating nginx-module-vts and then transfer all the scripts with minimal modifications to Nginx Plus once you are ready for the subscription. The documentation is wonderful, and there are many examples. Some of the keys in the JSON objects that are returned by this module differ from the official ngx_http_status keys, and because of this, we would recommend...
