F5 NGINX Instance Manager

F5 NGINX Instance Manager identifies, secures, manages, and monitors all F5 NGINX Open Source and F5 NGINX Plus instances in your organization. It is ideal for isolated on-prem and cloud environments.


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Track and Control NGINX Open Source and NGINX Plus Instances

Choose F5 NGINX One Cloud Console for a cutting-edge experience that aligns with modern compliance policies. If your organization demands on-premises oversight for enhanced security and data governance, the NGINX Instance Manager is your go-to solution, offering customization and isolated management.

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Simplify NGINX management

NGINX Instance Manager simplifies the configuration and maintenance of your NGINX fleet, particularly on-prem environments. Platform engineering teams can easily monitor instances while development teams can update configs and certificates through a shared interface.

  • Inventory NGINX Instances: Quickly discover all your instances in any environment from edge to Kubernetes cluster, and generate tables of discovered instances with detailed certificate information.
  • Monitor NGINX Instances: Boost productivity with enhanced monitoring capabilities, including accessing and storing operational metrics for all your instances.
  • Control NGINX Instances: Create, modify, and publish app and API connectivity and security policies, as well as update attack signatures and threat campaigns.


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Improve defenses by securing apps and APIs at scale

Visualize attacks and WAF performance, and edit and publish security configurations on a global scale.

  • Improve Visibility, Access, and Control: Create, edit, and deploy policy updates across your entire WAF environment, using either the GUI or REST API.
  • Automate Security for DevSecOps: Integrate WAF security into your CI/CD pipeline for easier, more comprehensive DevSecOps.
  • Discover Vulnerabilities: Determine if instances are vulnerable to CVEs and push out fixes for active CVEs.

Simplify NGINX configuration

Boost productivity with enhanced monitoring capabilities. Discover potential issues automatically, get suggested fixes, and pre-emptively resolve potential issues.

  • Diagnose Errors: Troubleshoot by analyzing current and saved configurations for syntactic errors.
  • Maintain Centralized Controls: Control access to NGINX configurations at the individual or team level using RBAC.
  • Easy Group Configuration: Apply one configuration to multiple instances with “Instance Groups.”
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Component Overview

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Focused management

NGINX Instance Manager is adept at scaling, with batch updates and centralized management to keep NGINX instances in sync. Comprehensive logging and reporting enable quick issue resolution, making NGINX Instance Manager vital for a seamless and secure online user experience.

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Core Capabilities

Get an accurate count of your organization’s instances in any environment from edge to Kubernetes cluster, and gain a holistic understanding of the health of your NGINX components.


Instance discovery


Scan your network to find unmanaged instances and view your complete landscape of web servers and proxies.


Certificate visibility

Generate tables of discovered instances with detailed certificate information.

Ecosystem integration

Integrate with widely used tools like Grafana or use options native to Instance Manager.


Actionable insights

Gather actionable information on caching, HTTP connections, CPU utilization, and more.

Storable configurations

Save and store NGINX configurations for future deployment.

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Related Components

NGINX Plus
NGINX Plus is an all-in-one, cloud-native load balancer, reverse proxy, web server, content cache, and API gateway.
NGINX Gateway Fabric
Implement the Gateway API across hybrid and multicloud Kubernetes environments with a secure, fast, and reliable NGINX data plane.
NGINX App Protect
NGINX App Protect is a comprehensive WAF security and denial-of-service (DoS) defense solution designed to protect apps and APIs from layer 7 attacks.
NGINX Ingress Controller
Manage app connectivity at the edge of a Kubernetes cluster with API gateway, load balancer, security, and observability features.

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