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 stats

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

Sample:

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