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What Is NGINX?Plus?
NGINX Plus is a software load balancer, web server, and content cache built on top of open source NGINX. NGINX Plus has exclusive enterprise‑grade features beyond what's available in the open source offering, including session persistence, configuration via API, and active health checks. Use NGINX Plus instead of your hardware load balancer and get the freedom to innovate without being constrained by infrastructure.
Why NGINX Plus?
Cost Effective
Save more than 80% compared to hardware ADCs, without sacrificing performance or functionality
Flexible and Portable
Deploy anywhere: public cloud, private cloud, bare metal, virtual machines, and containers
Automated
Save time by performing common tasks through the built‑in NGINX Plus API
Features
Load Balancer
Extend traditional load balancing with software:
- HTTP, TCP, and UDP load balancing
- Layer 7 request routing using URI, cookie, args, and more
- Session persistence based on cookies *
- Active health checks on status code and response body *
- Service discovery using DNS *
Content Cache
Use the same cache that powers the world’s largest CDNs:
- Cache static and dynamic content
- Improve dynamic content performance with microcaching
- Serve “stale” content while revalidating in the background to improve performance
- Override or set?
Cache-Control?headers - Manage the cache easily with the cache‑purging API *
Web Server
Deliver static assets with unparallelled speed and efficiency:
- Handle hundreds of thousands of clients simultaneously
- Use up to 90% less memory than other web servers
- Reverse proxy multiple protocols: HTTP, gRPC, memcached, PHP‑FPM, SCGI, uwsgi
- Stream HTTP video: FLV, HDS, HLS, MP4
- HTTP/2 gateway with HTTP/2 server push support
Security Controls
Protect your applications:
- Request and connection limiting
- Dual‑stack RSA/ECC SSL/TLS offloading
- TLS 1.3 support
- Dynamic certificate loading
- IP address‑based access control lists (ACLs)
- JWT authentication for APIs and OpenID Connect single sign‑on (SSO) *
- NGINX WAF dynamic module *
Dynamic Modules
Dynamically plug in additional features:
- NGINX JavaScript module to run JavaScript code during request processing
- GeoIP modules to locate users by IP address (requires MaxMind GeoIP database)
- Build tool for compiling your own custom modules
- SSO modules: ForgeRock, IDF Connect, and Ping?Identity *
- Dynamic modules repository *
Monitoring
Diagnose and debug complex application architectures:
- Monitor NGINX metrics and validate configuration with NGINX Amplify
- Plug‑ins for AppDynamics, Datadog, and Dynatrace
- Extended status with more than 90 unique metrics *
- Built‑in, real‑time graphical dashboard *
- JSON and HTML output for integration with custom monitoring tools *
High Availability (HA) *
Scalable and reliable HA deployments:
- Active‑active and active‑passive HA modes
- Configuration synchronization among NGINX Plus servers in a cluster
- State sharing for features including Sticky‑Learn session persistence, rate limiting, and key‑value stores
- Easy installation with built‑in script
Kubernetes Ingress Controller
Create Kubernetes applications with NGINX Plus in front:
- Load balancing with SSL/TLS termination
- WebSocket and HTTP/2 support
- URI rewriting before request is forwarded to application
- Prometheus exporter for monitoring
- Session persistence and health checks *
- JWT authentication *
Programmability
Dynamically deploy custom architectures:
- NGINX JavaScript module for scripting and advanced configurations
- Lua scripting language
- Ansible, Chef, and Puppet integration
- API for managing upstream servers, key‑value stores, and real‑time metrics *
- Dynamic reconfiguration without process reloads *
Streaming Media
Scalably deliver streaming media:
- Live streaming: RTMP, Apple HTTP Live Streaming (HLS), Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP (DASH)
- VOD: Flash (flv), MP4
- Adaptive‑bitrate VOD: HLS, Adobe HTTP Dynamic Streaming (HDS) *
- Bandwidth controls for MP4 streaming *
* Denotes NGINX Plus exclusive feature
Technical Specifications
Distributions
Architectures
APM
Cloud Platforms
For more technical specifications and lists of features and modules, see?full technical specifications.
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FeaturesOSSNGINX Plus
Load balancer
HTTP/TCP/UDP support
Content cache
Static/Dynamic content caching
Web server/Reverse proxy
Origin server for static content
Reverse proxy: HTTP, FastCGI, memcached, SCGI, uwsgi
gRPC proxy
HTTP/2 server push
Security controls
Dual?stack RSA/ECC SSL/TLS offload
TLS 1.3 support
OpenID Connect SSO
Monitoring
AppDynamics, Datadog, Dynatrace plug?ins
High availability (HA)
Active?active and active?passive modes
Configuration synchronization
State sharing: Sticky?Learn session persistence, rate limiting, key?value stores
Programmability
Dynamic reconfiguration without process reloads
Streaming media
Live streaming: RTMP, HLS, DASH
VOD: Flash (flv), MP4
Adaptive bitrate VOD: HLS, HDS
MP4 bandwidth controls
Third party ecosystem
OpenShift Router
Resources
