PowerDNS dnsdist monitoring with Netdata

Collects load-balancer performance and health metrics, and draws the following charts:

1. Response latency

   • latency-slow
   • latency100-1000
   • latency50-100
   • latency10-50
   • latency1-10
   • latency0-1

2. Cache performance

   • cache-hits
   • cache-misses

3. ACL events

   • acl-drops
   • rule-drop
   • rule-nxdomain
   • rule-refused

4. Noncompliant data

   • empty-queries
   • no-policy
   • noncompliant-queries
   • noncompliant-responses

5. Queries

   • queries
   • rdqueries
   • rdqueries

6. Health

   • downstream-send-errors
   • downstream-timeouts
   • servfail-responses
   • trunc-failures

Configuration

Edit the python.d/dnsdist.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/dnsdist.conf

localhost:

name : 'local'

url : 'http://127.0.0.1:5053/jsonstat?command=stats'

user : 'username'

pass : 'password'

header:

X-API-Key: 'dnsdist-api-key'