Inspect data sent through haproxy and create statistics

I know that haproxy exposes metrics like „Tr“ and “Tt”. My problem with the application I have to proxy is that this application hides all of her functionality behind one endpoint. To address the app I have to POST to (just an example) https://hpalm/endpoint. The payload that gets POSTed

haproxy 1.8 on CentOS with wrapper and SystemD

I`m having problems with running haproxy 1.8 on CentOS 7.4 and originally I planned to post my setup, logs and more. But while thinking about this I started to doubt that what I am trying is correct. Let me explain what I'm doing, perhaps there is a better approach which solves my problem

Is it good practice to set up a nginx behind haproxy with h2 or not ?

I need to set up haproxy 1.8.3 as a loadbalancer for several nginx webservers (1.13.x). The haproxy will be set up to support h2 connections. I am undecided if it is a good idea to setup nginx for h2 also. I understand that haproxy will be able to talk to nginx more efficiently, but there is

Using "-f" to load config files with duplicate sections from directory

I thought about simplifying my haproxy configurations. I will end up with several servers running similar setups. The idea is to split the single "haproxy.cfg" into several files and combining common parts into separate files and adding differential config files where appropriate. Running