Technologies/NGINX/nginx_cache_bypass_responses
NGINXNGINXMetric

nginx_cache_bypass_responses

The total number of responses not taken from the cache
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Available on:DatadogDatadog (1)
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The total number of responses not taken from the cache
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Response Time Degradation Without Resource Saturationwarning

When nginx_upstream_peers_response_time p95/p99 percentiles increase but nginx_upstream_peers_active stays low and backend resources (CPU, memory, database) appear healthy, the issue often lies in configuration inefficiencies: suboptimal keepalives, excessive DNS lookups, or poorly tuned caching.