With NGINX Plus, you can expect round-the-clock support from NGINX engineers and experts. Some of the advanced features of NGINX Plus over NGINX Open Source are active health checks, configuration through API, session persistence, and more.
NGINX Plus Features
Some of the advanced features of NGINX Plus that make it an upgraded version of NGINX open source are:
Advanced load balancing capabilities
NGINX Plus helps in scaling out and providing redundancies. As a high-performance load balancer, NGINX Plus enables session persistence, global server load balancing, active health checks, and dynamically reconfigures your infrastructure.
Extended logging capabilities
NGINX Plus offers extended logging capabilities that enable you to investigate performance issues with your applications. NGINX Plus provides a log analysis tool that is simple and cost-effective.
Commercial‑grade activity monitoring
NGINX Plus API supports commercial-grade live activity monitoring, including the dynamic configuration of upstream servers and key-value stores. The process has replaced the Upstream Conf module that was being used previously in NGINX Plus R13.
High availability setup
NGINX open-source uses routing software Keepalived to ensure high availability and prevent failover redundancy. With NGINX Plus, we can further extend this functionality with additional nodes and provide additional scalability and redundancy options.
Application health check
In case of a session timeout or communication error, the server responds with a status code to give a failed health check report. After this, the server is marked unhealthy, and NGINX Plus doesn’t send any client request to it unless it passes a health check again.
Adaptive media streaming
NGINX Plus is used to deliver MP4 and FLV content for HTTP pseudo-streaming. To further increase its competence, NGINX Plus supports multimedia streaming over computer networks for video-on-demand applications with Adobe HDS, Flash-based services, and Apple HLS.
Dynamic on‑the‑fly reconfiguration
The load balancing software is easy to reconfigure and doesn’t lead to any downtime or traffic loss. With NGINX Plus, you get additional features that help you further automate the process of modifying the configuration.
