net.inet6.ip6.stats

Plugin: freebsd.plugin Module: net.inet6.ip6.stats

Overview

Collect information abou IPv6 stats.

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.ip6.stats instance

These metrics show general information about IPv6 connections.

This scope has no labels.

Metrics:

Metric	Dimensions	Unit
ipv6.packets	received, sent, forwarded, delivers	packets/s
ipv6.fragsout	ok, failed, all	packets/s
ipv6.fragsin	ok, failed, timeout, all	packets/s
ipv6.errors	InDiscards, OutDiscards, InHdrErrors, InAddrErrors, InTruncatedPkts, InNoRoutes, OutNoRoutes	packets/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.ip6.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
ipv6 packets	Enable or disable ipv6 packet metric.	auto	no
ipv6 fragments sent	Enable or disable ipv6 fragments sent metric.	auto	no
ipv6 fragments assembly	Enable or disable ipv6 fragments assembly metric.	auto	no
ipv6 errors	Enable or disable ipv6 errors metric.	auto	no

Examples

There are no configuration examples.