unbound

Unbound Input Plugin

This plugin gathers stats from Unbound - a validating, recursive, and caching DNS resolver.

Configuration:

# A plugin to collect stats from the Unbound DNS resolver
[[inputs.unbound]]
  ## Address of server to connect to, read from unbound conf default, optionally ':port'
  ## Will lookup IP if given a hostname
  server = "127.0.0.1:8953"

  ## If running as a restricted user you can prepend sudo for additional access:
  # use_sudo = false

  ## The default location of the unbound-control binary can be overridden with:
  # binary = "/usr/sbin/unbound-control"

  ## The default timeout of 1s can be overriden with:
  # timeout = "1s"

  ## When set to true, thread metrics are tagged with the thread id.
  ##
  ## The default is false for backwards compatibility, and will be changed to
  ## true in a future version.  It is recommended to set to true on new
  ## deployments.
  thread_as_tag = false

Permissions:

It's important to note that this plugin references unbound-control, which may require additional permissions to execute successfully. Depending on the user/group permissions of the telegraf user executing this plugin, you may need to alter the group membership, set facls, or use sudo.

Group membership (Recommended):

$ groups telegraf
telegraf : telegraf

$ usermod -a -G unbound telegraf

$ groups telegraf
telegraf : telegraf unbound

Sudo privileges: If you use this method, you will need the following in your telegraf config:

[[inputs.unbound]]
  use_sudo = true

You will also need to update your sudoers file:

$ visudo
# Add the following line:
telegraf ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: /usr/sbin/unbound-control

Please use the solution you see as most appropriate.

Metrics:

This is the full list of stats provided by unbound-control and potentially collected depending of your unbound configuration. Histogram related statistics will never be collected, extended statistics can also be imported ("extended-statistics: yes" in unbound configuration). In the output, the dots in the unbound-control stat name are replaced by underscores(see https://www.unbound.net/documentation/unbound-control.html for details).

Shown metrics are with thread_as_tag enabled.

• unbound

  • fields: total_num_queries total_num_cachehits total_num_cachemiss total_num_prefetch total_num_recursivereplies total_requestlist_avg total_requestlist_max total_requestlist_overwritten total_requestlist_exceeded total_requestlist_current_all total_requestlist_current_user total_recursion_time_avg total_recursion_time_median time_now time_up time_elapsed mem_total_sbrk mem_cache_rrset mem_cache_message mem_mod_iterator mem_mod_validator num_query_type_A num_query_type_PTR num_query_type_TXT num_query_type_AAAA num_query_type_SRV num_query_type_ANY num_query_class_IN num_query_opcode_QUERY num_query_tcp num_query_ipv6 num_query_flags_QR num_query_flags_AA num_query_flags_TC num_query_flags_RD num_query_flags_RA num_query_flags_Z num_query_flags_AD num_query_flags_CD num_query_edns_present num_query_edns_DO num_answer_rcode_NOERROR num_answer_rcode_SERVFAIL num_answer_rcode_NXDOMAIN num_answer_rcode_nodata num_answer_secure num_answer_bogus num_rrset_bogus unwanted_queries unwanted_replies

• unbound_thread

  • tags:
    • thread
  • fields:
    • num_queries
    • num_cachehits
    • num_cachemiss
    • num_prefetch
    • num_recursivereplies
    • requestlist_avg
    • requestlist_max
    • requestlist_overwritten
    • requestlist_exceeded
    • requestlist_current_all
    • requestlist_current_user
    • recursion_time_avg
    • recursion_time_median

Example Output:

unbound,host=localhost total_requestlist_avg=0,total_requestlist_exceeded=0,total_requestlist_overwritten=0,total_requestlist_current_user=0,total_recursion_time_avg=0.029186,total_tcpusage=0,total_num_queries=51,total_num_queries_ip_ratelimited=0,total_num_recursivereplies=6,total_requestlist_max=0,time_now=1522804978.784814,time_elapsed=310.435217,total_num_cachemiss=6,total_num_zero_ttl=0,time_up=310.435217,total_num_cachehits=45,total_num_prefetch=0,total_requestlist_current_all=0,total_recursion_time_median=0.016384 1522804979000000000
unbound_threads,host=localhost,thread=0 num_queries_ip_ratelimited=0,requestlist_current_user=0,recursion_time_avg=0.029186,num_prefetch=0,requestlist_overwritten=0,requestlist_exceeded=0,requestlist_current_all=0,tcpusage=0,num_cachehits=37,num_cachemiss=6,num_recursivereplies=6,requestlist_avg=0,num_queries=43,num_zero_ttl=0,requestlist_max=0,recursion_time_median=0.032768 1522804979000000000
unbound_threads,host=localhost,thread=1 num_zero_ttl=0,recursion_time_avg=0,num_queries_ip_ratelimited=0,num_cachehits=8,num_prefetch=0,requestlist_exceeded=0,recursion_time_median=0,tcpusage=0,num_cachemiss=0,num_recursivereplies=0,requestlist_max=0,requestlist_overwritten=0,requestlist_current_user=0,num_queries=8,requestlist_avg=0,requestlist_current_all=0 1522804979000000000