How to enable HAProxy stats on CentOS 7 server step by step guide

In this tutorial we learn how to enable HAProxy stats on centos server.We can  get lot of info like data transfer, node status, connection status using HAProxy stats . After installing HAProxy we should enable HAProxy stats to get information through web browser.

Recommended Read: How to install and configure HAProxy on CentOS 7 server.

Enable HAProxy stats on centos server

To enable HAProxy stats first we need to go haproxy configuration file and edit this file and add the below lines after default section.

listen  stats   192.168.137.6:3000

        mode            http

  

        maxconn 10

        timeout client          300s

        timeout server        300s

        timeout connect     300s

        timeout queue        300s

        stats enable

        stats refresh 10s

        stats show-node

        stats auth haproxyadmin:haproxyadmin

        stats uri  /haproxy

After doing the above configuration we can access using the below link through the web browser.


http://192.168.137.6:3000/haproxy

username : haproxyadmin

password:   haproxyadmin

How to enable HAProxy stats on CentOS 7 server step by step guide

you can change the auth parameter using stats auth parameter and also you can change uri parameter as per your choice.

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How to install and configure HAProxy on centos 7 step by step guide

In this article we learn what is HAProxy and how to setup and configure HAProxy on centos 7 server .

What is HAProxy

HAProxy is a free, very fast and reliable solution which provides high availability ,load balancing and proxying for the TCP and HTTP based application.

 Installtion of HAProxy on centos server

HAProxy package is available in the default centos repo. To install the HAProxy package we need to execute the below command.

[root@localhost ~]# yum install haproxy

How to install and configure HAProxy on centos 7 step by step guide

Configuration of HAProxy on centos server

To configure HAProxy as per our requirement we need to go its configuration file which is located at “/etc/haproxy/haproxy.cfg”

Sample configure file as below.

global

        daemon

        maxconn 256

        log         127.0.0.1 local2

    defaults

        timeout queue           1m

        timeout connect         10s

        timeout client          1m

        timeout server          1m

        timeout http-keep-alive 10s

        timeout check           10s

    listen http 192.168.137.6:80

       mode http

       balance roundrobin

       server server1 192.168.137.5:8080

       server server2 192.168.137.4:8080

When any request hits on the ip 192.168.137.6 on port 80 it will be redirected on server1 and server2 ip addresses along with their respective ports.

And also we can change our configuration parameter as per our requirement .

Mode: you can change it either”http” or “tcp” as per requirement.

Balance: you can change also load balancing method as per requirement.

For more reference visit: http://haproxy.1wt.eu/download/1.4/doc/configuration.txt

After configuring all the above stuff we can start the haproxy service and enable it at startup mode.

#systemctl start haproxy

#systemctl enable haparoxy

Recommended Read: Enable HAProxy stats on centos server

That’s all.We have configured haproxy if this article helpful please share it!!

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