Benchmark Your NGINX WEB Server

 

There are lots of commercial and open source tools to benchmark your web server. In this blog I and going to demonstrate benchmark your web server with CIS benchmark policies. Any one can freely download CIS documents.

CIS Download URL:  https://www.cisecurity.org/benchmark/nginx

"The CIS Benchmarks are distributed free of charge in PDF format to propagate their worldwide use and adoption as user-originated, de facto standards. CIS Benchmarks are the only consensus-based, best-practice security configuration guides both developed and accepted by government, business, industry, and academia."

Download benchmark scrip: https://github.com/viduranga0006/nginx-benchmark

This is a bash shell script. You have to run it with supper user. Once you execute, you have to select relevant category. At the end it will list summary of benchmark results.