net.inet.udp.stats

Plugin: freebsd.plugin Module: net.inet.udp.stats

Overview

Collect information about UDP connections.

The plugin calls sysctl function to collect necessary data.

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.udp.stats instance

These metrics show UDP connections statistics.

This scope has no labels.

Metrics:

Metric	Dimensions	Unit
ipv4.udppackets	received, sent	packets/s
ipv4.udperrors	InErrors, NoPorts, RcvbufErrors, InCsumErrors, IgnoredMulti	events/s

Alerts

The following alerts are available:

Alert name	On metric	Description
1m_ipv4_udp_receive_buffer_errors	ipv4.udperrors	average number of UDP receive buffer errors over the last minute
1m_ipv4_udp_send_buffer_errors	ipv4.udperrors	average number of UDP send buffer errors over the last minute

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:net.inet.udp.stats] 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
ipv4 UDP packets	Enable or disable ipv4 UDP packets metric.	yes	no
ipv4 UDP errors	Enable or disable ipv4 UDP errors metric.	yes	no

Examples

There are no configuration examples.