PowerDNS Input Plugin

This plugin gathers metrics from PowerDNS servers using unix sockets.

[!NOTE] This plugin will need access to the powerdns control socket.

⭐ Telegraf v0.10.2 🏷️ server 💻 all

Global configuration options <!-- @/docs/includes/plugin_config.md -->

Plugins support additional global and plugin configuration settings for tasks such as modifying metrics, tags, and fields, creating aliases, and configuring plugin ordering. See CONFIGURATION.md for more details.

Configuration

# Read metrics from one or many PowerDNS servers
[[inputs.powerdns]]
  # An array of sockets to gather stats about.
  # Specify a path to unix socket.
  #
  # If no servers are specified, then '/var/run/pdns.controlsocket' is used as the path.
  unix_sockets = ["/var/run/pdns.controlsocket"]

Permissions

Telegraf will need access to the powerdns control socket. On many systems this can be accomplished by adding the telegraf user to the pdns group:

usermod telegraf -a -G pdns

Additionally, telegraf may need additional permissions. Look at the socket-mode PowerDNS option to set permissions on the socket.

Metrics

• powerdns
  • corrupt-packets
  • deferred-cache-inserts
  • deferred-cache-lookup
  • dnsupdate-answers
  • dnsupdate-changes
  • dnsupdate-queries
  • dnsupdate-refused
  • packetcache-hit
  • packetcache-miss
  • packetcache-size
  • query-cache-hit
  • query-cache-miss
  • rd-queries
  • recursing-answers
  • recursing-questions
  • recursion-unanswered
  • security-status
  • servfail-packets
  • signatures
  • tcp-answers
  • tcp-queries
  • timedout-packets
  • udp-answers
  • udp-answers-bytes
  • udp-do-queries
  • udp-queries
  • udp4-answers
  • udp4-queries
  • udp6-answers
  • udp6-queries
  • key-cache-size
  • latency
  • meta-cache-size
  • qsize-q
  • signature-cache-size
  • sys-msec
  • uptime
  • user-msec

Tags

• tags: server=socket

Example Output

powerdns,server=/var/run/pdns.controlsocket corrupt-packets=0i,deferred-cache-inserts=0i,deferred-cache-lookup=0i,dnsupdate-answers=0i,dnsupdate-changes=0i,dnsupdate-queries=0i,dnsupdate-refused=0i,key-cache-size=0i,latency=26i,meta-cache-size=0i,packetcache-hit=0i,packetcache-miss=1i,packetcache-size=0i,qsize-q=0i,query-cache-hit=0i,query-cache-miss=6i,rd-queries=1i,recursing-answers=0i,recursing-questions=0i,recursion-unanswered=0i,security-status=3i,servfail-packets=0i,signature-cache-size=0i,signatures=0i,sys-msec=4349i,tcp-answers=0i,tcp-queries=0i,timedout-packets=0i,udp-answers=1i,udp-answers-bytes=50i,udp-do-queries=0i,udp-queries=0i,udp4-answers=1i,udp4-queries=1i,udp6-answers=0i,udp6-queries=0i,uptime=166738i,user-msec=3036i 1454078624932715706