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@@ -125,12 +125,82 @@ If no configuration is given, module will attempt to read log file at `/var/log/
---
+# bind_rndc
+
+Module parses bind dump file to collect real-time performance metrics
+
+**Requirements:**
+ * Version of bind must be 9.6 +
+ * Netdata must have permissions to run `rndc status`
+
+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
+
+Sample:
+
+```yaml
+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`
+
+---
+
# cpufreq
-Module shows current cpu frequency by looking at appropriate files in /sys/devices
+This module shows the current CPU frequency as set by the cpufreq kernel
+module.
**Requirement:**
-Processor which presents data scaling frequency data
+You need to have `CONFIG_CPU_FREQ` and (optionally) `CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_STAT`
+enabled in your kernel.
+
+This module tries to read from one of two possible locations. On
+initialization, it tries to read the `time_in_state` files provided by
+cpufreq\_stats. If this file does not exist, or doesn't contain valid data, it
+falls back to using the more inaccurate `scaling_cur_freq` file (which only
+represents the **current** CPU frequency, and doesn't account for any state
+changes which happen between updates).
It produces one chart with multiple lines (one line per core).
@@ -142,11 +212,23 @@ Sample:
sys_dir: "/sys/devices"
```
-If no configuration is given, module will search for `scaling_cur_freq` files in `/sys/devices` directory.
+If no configuration is given, module will search for cpufreq files in `/sys/devices` directory.
Directory is also prefixed with `NETDATA_HOST_PREFIX` if specified.
---
+# cpuidle
+
+This module monitors the usage of CPU idle states.
+
+**Requirement:**
+Your kernel needs to have `CONFIG_CPU_IDLE` enabled.
+
+It produces one stacked chart per CPU, showing the percentage of time spent in
+each state.
+
+---
+
# dovecot
This module provides statistics information from dovecot server.
@@ -158,45 +240,47 @@ Dovecot unix socket with R/W permissions for user netdata or dovecot with config
Module gives information with following charts:
-1. **logins and sessions**
- * logins
+1. **sessions**
* active sessions
-2. **commands** - number of IMAP commands
+2. **logins**
+ * logins
+
+3. **commands** - number of IMAP commands
* commands
-3. **Faults**
+4. **Faults**
* minor
* major
-4. **Context Switches**
+5. **Context Switches**
* volountary
* involountary
-5. **disk** in bytes/s
+6. **disk** in bytes/s
* read
* write
-6. **bytes** in bytes/s
+7. **bytes** in bytes/s
* read
* write
-7. **number of syscalls** in syscalls/s
+8. **number of syscalls** in syscalls/s
* read
* write
-8. **lookups** - number of lookups per second
+9. **lookups** - number of lookups per second
* path
* attr
-9. **hits** - number of cache hits
+10. **hits** - number of cache hits
* hits
-10. **attempts** - authorization attemts
+11. **attempts** - authorization attemts
* success
* failure
-11. **cache** - cached authorization hits
+12. **cache** - cached authorization hits
* hit
* miss
@@ -219,6 +303,67 @@ If no configuration is given, module will attempt to connect to dovecot using un
---
+# elasticsearch
+
+Module monitor elasticsearch performance and health metrics
+
+It produces:
+
+1. **Search performance** charts:
+ * Number of queries, fetches
+ * Time spent on queries, fetches
+ * Query and fetch latency
+
+2. **Indexing performance** charts:
+ * Number of documents indexed, index refreshes, flushes
+ * Time spent on indexing, refreshing, flushing
+ * Indexing and flushing latency
+
+3. **Memory usage and garbace collection** charts:
+ * JVM heap currently in use, commited
+ * Count of garbage collections
+ * Time spent on garbage collections
+
+4. **Host metrics** charts:
+ * Available file descriptors in percent
+ * Opened HTTP connections
+ * Cluster communication transport metrics
+
+5. **Queues and rejections** charts:
+ * Number of queued/rejected threads in thread pool
+
+6. **Fielddata cache** charts:
+ * Fielddata cache size
+ * Fielddata evictions and circuit breaker tripped count
+
+7. **Cluster health API** charts:
+ * Cluster status
+ * Nodes and tasks statistics
+ * Shards statistics
+
+8. **Cluster stats API** charts:
+ * Nodes statistics
+ * Query cache statistics
+ * Docs statistics
+ * Store statistics
+ * Indices and shards statistics
+
+### configuration
+
+Sample:
+
+```yaml
+local:
+ host : 'ipaddress' # Server ip address or hostname
+ port : 'password' # Port on which elasticsearch listed
+ cluster_health : True/False # Calls to cluster health elasticsearch API. Enabled by default.
+ cluster_stats : True/False # Calls to cluster stats elasticsearch API. Enabled by default.
+```
+
+If no configuration is given, module will fail to run.
+
+---
+
# exim
Simple module executing `exim -bpc` to grab exim queue.
@@ -233,6 +378,151 @@ Configuration is not needed.
---
+# fail2ban
+
+Module monitor fail2ban log file to show all bans for all active jails
+
+**Requirements:**
+ * fail2ban.log file MUST BE readable by netdata (A good idea is to add **create 0640 root netdata** to fail2ban conf at logrotate.d)
+
+It produces one chart with multiple lines (one line per jail)
+
+### configuration
+
+Sample:
+
+```yaml
+local:
+ log_path: '/var/log/fail2ban.log'
+ conf_path: '/etc/fail2ban/jail.local'
+ exclude: 'dropbear apache'
+```
+If no configuration is given, module will attempt to read log file at `/var/log/fail2ban.log` and conf file at `/etc/fail2ban/jail.local`.
+If conf file is not found default jail is `ssh`.
+
+---
+
+# freeradius
+
+Uses the `radclient` command to provide freeradius statistics. It is not recommended to run it every second.
+
+It produces:
+
+1. **Authentication counters:**
+ * access-accepts
+ * access-rejects
+ * auth-dropped-requests
+ * auth-duplicate-requests
+ * auth-invalid-requests
+ * auth-malformed-requests
+ * auth-unknown-types
+
+2. **Accounting counters:** [optional]
+ * accounting-requests
+ * accounting-responses
+ * acct-dropped-requests
+ * acct-duplicate-requests
+ * acct-invalid-requests
+ * acct-malformed-requests
+ * acct-unknown-types
+
+3. **Proxy authentication counters:** [optional]
+ * proxy-access-accepts
+ * proxy-access-rejects
+ * proxy-auth-dropped-requests
+ * proxy-auth-duplicate-requests
+ * proxy-auth-invalid-requests
+ * proxy-auth-malformed-requests
+ * proxy-auth-unknown-types
+
+4. **Proxy accounting counters:** [optional]
+ * proxy-accounting-requests
+ * proxy-accounting-responses
+ * proxy-acct-dropped-requests
+ * proxy-acct-duplicate-requests
+ * proxy-acct-invalid-requests
+ * proxy-acct-malformed-requests
+ * proxy-acct-unknown-typesa
+
+
+### configuration
+
+Sample:
+
+```yaml
+local:
+ host : 'localhost'
+ port : '18121'
+ secret : 'adminsecret'
+ acct : False # Freeradius accounting statistics.
+ proxy_auth : False # Freeradius proxy authentication statistics.
+ proxy_acct : False # Freeradius proxy accounting statistics.
+```
+
+**Freeradius server configuration:**
+
+The configuration for the status server is automatically created in the sites-available directory.
+By default, server is enabled and can be queried from every client.
+FreeRADIUS will only respond to status-server messages, if the status-server virtual server has been enabled.
+
+To do this, create a link from the sites-enabled directory to the status file in the sites-available directory:
+ * cd sites-enabled
+ * ln -s ../sites-available/status status
+
+and restart/reload your FREERADIUS server.
+
+---
+
+# haproxy
+
+Module monitors frontend and backend metrics such as bytes in, bytes out, sessions current, sessions in queue current.
+And health metrics such as backend servers status (server check should be used).
+
+Plugin can obtain data from url **OR** unix socket.
+
+**Requirement:**
+Socket MUST be readable AND writable by netdata user.
+
+It produces:
+
+1. **Frontend** family charts
+ * Kilobytes in/s
+ * Kilobytes out/s
+ * Sessions current
+ * Sessions in queue current
+
+2. **Backend** family charts
+ * Kilobytes in/s
+ * Kilobytes out/s
+ * Sessions current
+ * Sessions in queue current
+
+3. **Health** chart
+ * number of failed servers for every backend (in DOWN state)
+
+
+### configuration
+
+Sample:
+
+```yaml
+via_url:
+ user : 'username' # ONLY IF stats auth is used
+ pass : 'password' # # ONLY IF stats auth is used
+ url : 'http://ip.address:port/url;csv;norefresh'
+```
+
+OR
+
+```yaml
+via_socket:
+ socket : 'path/to/haproxy/sock'
+```
+
+If no configuration is given, module will fail to run.
+
+---
+
# hddtemp
Module monitors disk temperatures from one or more hddtemp daemons.
@@ -281,6 +571,69 @@ localhost:
---
+# isc_dhcpd
+
+Module monitor leases database to show all active leases for given pools.
+
+**Requirements:**
+ * dhcpd leases file MUST BE readable by netdata
+ * pools MUST BE in CIDR format
+
+It produces:
+
+1. **Pools utilization** Aggregate chart for all pools.
+ * utilization in percent
+
+2. **Total leases**
+ * leases (overall number of leases for all pools)
+
+3. **Active leases** for every pools
+ * leases (number of active leases in pool)
+
+
+### configuration
+
+Sample:
+
+```yaml
+local:
+ leases_path : '/var/lib/dhcp/dhcpd.leases'
+ pools : '192.168.3.0/24 192.168.4.0/24 192.168.5.0/24'
+```
+
+In case of python2 you need to install `py2-ipaddress` to make plugin work.
+The module will not work If no configuration is given.
+
+---
+
+
+# mdstat
+
+Module monitor /proc/mdstat
+
+It produces:
+
+1. **Health** Number of failed disks in every array (aggregate chart).
+
+2. **Disks stats**
+ * total (number of devices array ideally would have)
+ * inuse (number of devices currently are in use)
+
+3. **Current status**
+ * resync in percent
+ * recovery in percent
+ * reshape in percent
+ * check in percent
+
+4. **Operation status** (if resync/recovery/reshape/check is active)
+ * finish in minutes
+ * speed in megabytes/s
+
+### configuration
+No configuration is needed.
+
+---
+
# memcached
Memcached monitoring module. Data grabbed from [stats interface](https://github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki/Commands#stats).
@@ -515,6 +868,39 @@ When no configuration file is found, module tries to parse `/var/log/nginx/acces
---
+# ovpn_status_log
+
+Module monitor openvpn-status log file.
+
+**Requirements:**
+
+ * If you are running multiple OpenVPN instances out of the same directory, MAKE SURE TO EDIT DIRECTIVES which create output files
+ so that multiple instances do not overwrite each other's output files.
+
+ * Make sure NETDATA USER CAN READ openvpn-status.log
+
+ * Update_every interval MUST MATCH interval on which OpenVPN writes operational status to log file.
+
+It produces:
+
+1. **Users** OpenVPN active users
+ * users
+
+2. **Traffic** OpenVPN overall bandwidth usage in kilobit/s
+ * in
+ * out
+
+### configuration
+
+Sample:
+
+```yaml
+default
+ log_path : '/var/log/openvpn-status.log'
+```
+
+---
+
# phpfpm
This module will monitor one or more php-fpm instances depending on configuration.
@@ -699,3 +1085,69 @@ Without configuration, module attempts to connect to `http://localhost:8080/mana
So it will probably fail.
---
+
+# varnish cache
+
+Module uses the `varnishstat` command to provide varnish cache statistics.
+
+It produces:
+
+1. **Client metrics**
+ * session accepted
+ * session dropped
+ * good client requests received
+
+2. **All history hit rate ratio**
+ * cache hits in percent
+ * cache miss in percent
+ * cache hits for pass percent
+
+3. **Curent poll hit rate ratio**
+ * cache hits in percent
+ * cache miss in percent
+ * cache hits for pass percent
+
+4. **Thread-related metrics** (only for varnish version 4+)
+ * total number of threads
+ * threads created
+ * threads creation failed
+ * threads hit max
+ * length os session queue
+ * sessions queued for thread
+
+5. **Backend health**
+ * backend conn. success
+ * backend conn. not attempted
+ * backend conn. too many
+ * backend conn. failures
+ * backend conn. reuses
+ * backend conn. recycles
+ * backend conn. retry
+ * backend requests made
+
+6. **Memory usage**
+ * memory available in megabytes
+ * memory allocated in megabytes
+
+7. **Problems summary**
+ * session dropped
+ * session accept failures
+ * session pipe overflow
+ * backend conn. not attempted
+ * fetch failed (all causes)
+ * backend conn. too many
+ * threads hit max
+ * threads destroyed
+ * length of session queue
+ * HTTP header overflows
+ * ESI parse errors
+ * ESI parse warnings
+
+8. **Uptime**
+ * varnish instance uptime in seconds
+
+### configuration
+
+No configuration is needed.
+
+---