Plugin:PowerDNS

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PowerDNS plugin
Type: read
Callbacks: config, read, shutdown
Status: supported
First version: 4.4
Copyright: 2007–2008 C-Ware, Inc.
2008 Florian octo Forster
License: GPLv2
Manpage: collectd.conf(5)
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The PowerDNS plugin connects to a local PowerDNS instance over the control sockets and queries information from the name server and the "recursor". Statistics include questions and answers by type, cache sizes, latency, etc.

[edit] Synopsis

<Plugin "powerdns">
  <Server "server_name">
    Collect "latency"
    Collect "udp-answers" "udp-queries"
    Socket "/var/run/pdns.controlsocket"
  </Server>
  <Recursor "recursor_name">
    Collect "questions"
    Collect "cache-hits" "cache-misses"
    Socket "/var/run/pdns_recursor.controlsocket"
  </Recursor>
  LocalSocket "/opt/collectd/var/run/collectd-powerdns"
</Plugin>

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[edit] Dependencies

  • none