# 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](/docs/configure/nodes.md), which is typically at `/etc/netdata`. ```bash cd /etc/netdata # Replace this path with your Netdata config directory, if different sudo ./edit-config python.d/dnsdist.conf ``` ```yaml localhost: name : 'local' url : 'http://127.0.0.1:5053/jsonstat?command=stats' user : 'username' pass : 'password' header: X-API-Key: 'dnsdist-api-key' ``` [](<>)