PowerDNS monitoring with Netdata

Monitors authoritative server and recursor statistics.

Powerdns charts:

1. Queries and Answers

   • udp-queries
   • udp-answers
   • tcp-queries
   • tcp-answers

2. Cache Usage

   • query-cache-hit
   • query-cache-miss
   • packetcache-hit
   • packetcache-miss

3. Cache Size

   • query-cache-size
   • packetcache-size
   • key-cache-size
   • meta-cache-size

4. Latency

   • latency

   Powerdns Recursor charts:

5. Questions In

   • questions
   • ipv6-questions
   • tcp-queries

6. Questions Out

   • all-outqueries
   • ipv6-outqueries
   • tcp-outqueries
   • throttled-outqueries

7. Answer Times

   • answers-slow
   • answers0-1
   • answers1-10
   • answers10-100
   • answers100-1000

8. Timeouts

   • outgoing-timeouts
   • outgoing4-timeouts
   • outgoing6-timeouts

9. Drops

   • over-capacity-drops

10. Cache Usage

    • cache-hits
    • cache-misses
    • packetcache-hits
    • packetcache-misses

11. Cache Size

    • cache-entries
    • packetcache-entries
    • negcache-entries

Configuration

Edit the python.d/powerdns.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/powerdns.conf

local:

name : 'local'

url : 'http://127.0.0.1:8081/api/v1/servers/localhost/statistics'

header :

X-API-Key: 'change_me'

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