net.inet.tcp.states

Plugin: freebsd.plugin Module: net.inet.tcp.states

Overview

This collector is supported on all platforms.

This collector supports collecting metrics from multiple instances of this integration, including remote instances.

Default Behavior

Auto-Detection

This integration doesn't support auto-detection.

Limits

The default configuration for this integration does not impose any limits on data collection.

Performance Impact

The default configuration for this integration is not expected to impose a significant performance impact on the system.

Metrics

Metrics grouped by scope.

The scope defines the instance that the metric belongs to. An instance is uniquely identified by a set of labels.

Per net.inet.tcp.states instance

A counter for TCP connections.

This scope has no labels.

Metrics:

Metric	Dimensions	Unit
ipv4.tcpsock	connections	active connections

Alerts

The following alerts are available:

Alert name	On metric	Description
tcp_connections	ipv4.tcpsock	IPv4 TCP connections utilization

Setup

Prerequisites

No action required.

Configuration

File

The configuration file name for this integration is netdata.conf. Configuration for this specific integration is located in the [plugin:freebsd] section within that file.

The file format is a modified INI syntax. The general structure is:

[section1]
    option1 = some value
    option2 = some other value

[section2]
    option3 = some third value

You can edit the configuration file using the edit-config script from the Netdata config directory.

cd /etc/netdata 2>/dev/null || cd /opt/netdata/etc/netdata
sudo ./edit-config netdata.conf

Options

Config options

Name	Description	Default	Required
net.inet.tcp.states	Enable or disable TCP state metric.	yes	no

Examples

There are no configuration examples.