PowerDNS Authoritative Server monitoring with Netdata
PowerDNS Authoritative Server is a versatile nameserver which supports a
large number of backends.
This module monitors one or more PowerDNS Authoritative Server instances, depending on your configuration.
It collects metrics from the internal webserver.
Used endpoints:
Requirements#
For collecting metrics via HTTP, we need:
Charts#
- Incoming questions in
questions/s - Outgoing questions in
questions/s - Cache Usage in
events/s - Cache Size in
entries - Latency in
microseconds
Configuration#
Edit the go.d/powerdns.conf configuration file using edit-config from the
Netdata config directory, which is typically at /etc/netdata.
To add a new endpoint to collect metrics from, or change the URL that Netdata looks for, add or configure the name and
url values. Endpoints can be both local or remote as long as they expose their metrics on the provided URL.
Here is an example with two endpoints:
For all available options, see the PowerDNS Authoritative Server collector's configuration file.
Troubleshooting#
To troubleshoot issues with the powerdns collector, run the go.d.plugin with the debug option enabled. The output
should give you clues as to why the collector isn't working.
First, navigate to your plugins directory, usually at /usr/libexec/netdata/plugins.d/. If that's not the case on your
system, open netdata.conf and look for the setting plugins directory. Once you're in the plugin's directory, switch
to the netdata user.
You can now run the go.d.plugin to debug the collector: