The over 160 million websites that rely on NGINX Inc.’s reverse proxy to handle requests stand to benefit a great deal from the new monitoring tool that it’s rolling out today. Dubbed Amplify, the software promises to help customers better deal with the performance and reliability issues that hinder user experience online.

Its main selling point is an automatic diagnostic engine that can analyze NGINX deployments to see if there’s anything wrong with their configuration. The problems found during the scan are organized into a neat report that displays the specific lines of code affected along with detailed information about each item. Amplify is even able to provide troubleshooting tips in some cases, according to NGINX, a feature that has the potential to save a lot of hassle for webmasters. As a result, issues can be fixed faster while the time normally spent on manually hunting down and fixing bugs is freed up for other tasks.

Yet as useful as Amplify’s automated diagnostics engine sounds, some advanced issues still have to be handled the old fashion way. The tool addresses this requirement by providing a customizable monitoring dashboard that provides visibility into hundreds of operational metrics about NGINX. Logs are collected not only from the software itself but also the underlying servers and operating system to provide a complete view of the environment, according to the company. And each specific data point can be optionally incorporated into an alert to ensure the IT department stays on top of important changes.

For instance, an administrator might want to receive a notification when latency crosses a certain threshold or if their website’s dropped request rate suddenly spikes. Amplify is hardly the first diagnostics tool to provide such functionality, but the widespread adoption of NGINX gives it the potential to make a substantial impact on the worldwide web. The software is currently in public beta and is expected to hit general availability sometime later this year.

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