# PowerDNS monitoring with Netdata Monitors authoritative server and recursor statistics. Powerdns charts: 1. **Queries and Answers** - udp-queries - udp-answers - tcp-queries - tcp-answers 2. **Cache Usage** - query-cache-hit - query-cache-miss - packetcache-hit - packetcache-miss 3. **Cache Size** - query-cache-size - packetcache-size - key-cache-size - meta-cache-size 4. **Latency** - latency Powerdns Recursor charts: 1. **Questions In** - questions - ipv6-questions - tcp-queries 2. **Questions Out** - all-outqueries - ipv6-outqueries - tcp-outqueries - throttled-outqueries 3. **Answer Times** - answers-slow - answers0-1 - answers1-10 - answers10-100 - answers100-1000 4. **Timeouts** - outgoing-timeouts - outgoing4-timeouts - outgoing6-timeouts 5. **Drops** - over-capacity-drops 6. **Cache Usage** - cache-hits - cache-misses - packetcache-hits - packetcache-misses 7. **Cache Size** - cache-entries - packetcache-entries - negcache-entries ## Configuration Edit the `python.d/powerdns.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/powerdns.conf ``` ```yaml local: name : 'local' url : 'http://127.0.0.1:8081/api/v1/servers/localhost/statistics' header : X-API-Key: 'change_me' ``` --- [](<>)