ISC Bind monitoring with Netdata

Collects Name server summary performance statistics using rndc tool.

Requirements

• Version of bind must be 9.6 +
• Netdata must have permissions to run rndc stats

It produces:

1. Name server statistics

   • requests
   • responses
   • success
   • auth_answer
   • nonauth_answer
   • nxrrset
   • failure
   • nxdomain
   • recursion
   • duplicate
   • rejections

2. Incoming queries

   • RESERVED0
   • A
   • NS
   • CNAME
   • SOA
   • PTR
   • MX
   • TXT
   • X25
   • AAAA
   • SRV
   • NAPTR
   • A6
   • DS
   • RSIG
   • DNSKEY
   • SPF
   • ANY
   • DLV

3. Outgoing queries

• Same as Incoming queries

Configuration

Edit the python.d/bind_rndc.conf configuration file using edit-config from the Netdata config directory, which is typically at /etc/netdata.

cd /etc/netdata # Replace this path with your Netdata config directory, if different

sudo ./edit-config python.d/bind_rndc.conf

Sample:

local:

named_stats_path : '/var/log/bind/named.stats'

If no configuration is given, module will attempt to read named.stats file at /var/log/bind/named.stats

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