@@ -1043,7 +1043,10 @@ There are two solutions to work around this problem:
* use a third-party module like [vts](https://github.com/vozlt/nginx-module-vts) or [sts](https://github.com/vozlt/nginx-module-sts) and the
[exporter](https://github.com/hnlq715/nginx-vts-exporter) to expose those metrics - the vts module doesn't seem
to be very well maintained (no release since 2018) and it's unclear
if this will work for our use case
if this will work for our use case. Update: the vts module seems
better maintained now and has Prometheus metrics support, the
[nginx-vts-exporter](https://github.com/sysulq/nginx-vts-exporter) is marked as deprecated. A [RFP for the
module was filed](https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1068764). There is also a [lua-based exporter](https://github.com/knyar/nginx-lua-prometheus).
Here's an example of how to do the mtail hack. First tell nginx to
write to syslog, to act as a buffer, so that parsing doesn't slow
