net.inet6.icmp6.stats

Plugin: freebsd.plugin Module: net.inet6.icmp6.stats

Overview

Collect information abou IPv6 ICMP

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.inet6.icmp6.stats instance

Collect IPv6 ICMP traffic statistics.

This scope has no labels.

Metrics:

Metric	Dimensions	Unit
ipv6.icmp	received, sent	messages/s
ipv6.icmpredir	received, sent	redirects/s
ipv6.icmperrors	InErrors, OutErrors, InCsumErrors, InDestUnreachs, InPktTooBigs, InTimeExcds, InParmProblems, OutDestUnreachs, OutTimeExcds, OutParmProblems	errors/s
ipv6.icmpechos	InEchos, OutEchos, InEchoReplies, OutEchoReplies	messages/s
ipv6.icmprouter	InSolicits, OutSolicits, InAdvertisements, OutAdvertisements	messages/s
ipv6.icmpneighbor	InSolicits, OutSolicits, InAdvertisements, OutAdvertisements	messages/s
ipv6.icmptypes	InType1, InType128, InType129, InType136, OutType1, OutType128, OutType129, OutType133, OutType135, OutType143	messages/s

Alerts

There are no alerts configured by default for this integration.

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.inet6.icmp6.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
icmp	Enable or disable ICMP metric.	auto	no
icmp redirects	Enable or disable ICMP redirects metric.	auto	no
icmp errors	Enable or disable ICMP errors metric.	auto	no
icmp echos	Enable or disable ICMP echos metric.	auto	no
icmp router	Enable or disable ICMP router metric.	auto	no
icmp neighbor	Enable or disable ICMP neighbor metric.	auto	no
icmp types	Enable or disable ICMP types metric.	auto	no

Examples

There are no configuration examples.