Agentic Observability With NGINX: Open Source MCP Traffic Monitoring
summary
NGINX ships an Agentic Observability module that parses MCP (Model Context Protocol) calls between agents and tools, extracts tool names, errors, latency and routes metrics via a built‑in OTel exporter and Prometheus for Grafana dashboards. It’s a pure NJS JavaScript module named nginx-mcp-js that runs on both NGINX Open Source and Plus, compiles down for C-level performance, provides a runnable demo repo and blog, and is ready for experimentation with planned Kubernetes/Gateway Fabric integration.
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