# FreeRADIUS monitoring with Netdata 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 Edit the `python.d/freeradius.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/freeradius.conf ``` 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. --- [](<>)