# Dovecot monitoring with Netdata Provides statistics information from Dovecot server. Statistics are taken from dovecot socket by executing `EXPORT global` command. More information about dovecot stats can be found on [project wiki page.](http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Statistics) Module isn't compatible with new statistic api (v2.3), but you are still able to use the module with Dovecot v2.3 by following [upgrading steps.](https://wiki2.dovecot.org/Upgrading/2.3). **Requirement:** Dovecot UNIX socket with R/W permissions for user `netdata` or Dovecot with configured TCP/IP socket. Module gives information with following charts: 1. **sessions** - active sessions 2. **logins** - logins 3. **commands** - number of IMAP commands - commands 4. **Faults** - minor - major 5. **Context Switches** - voluntary - involuntary 6. **disk** in bytes/s - read - write 7. **bytes** in bytes/s - read - write 8. **number of syscalls** in syscalls/s - read - write 9. **lookups** - number of lookups per second - path - attr 10. **hits** - number of cache hits - hits 11. **attempts** - authorization attempts - success - failure 12. **cache** - cached authorization hits - hit - miss ## Configuration Edit the `python.d/dovecot.conf` configuration file using `edit-config` from the Netdata [config directory](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/blob/master/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/dovecot.conf ``` Sample: ```yaml localtcpip: name : 'local' host : '127.0.0.1' port : 24242 localsocket: name : 'local' socket : '/var/run/dovecot/stats' ``` If no configuration is given, module will attempt to connect to dovecot using unix socket localized in `/var/run/dovecot/stats` ---