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# 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'
```