Dovecot collector
Provides statistics information from Dovecot server.
Statistics are taken from dovecot socket by executing EXPORT global
command.
More information about dovecot stats can be found on project wiki page.
Module isn't compatible with new statistic api (v2.3), but you are still able to use the module with Dovecot v2.3 by following upgrading steps..
Requirement:
Dovecot UNIX socket with R/W permissions for user netdata
or Dovecot with configured TCP/IP socket.
Module gives information with following charts:
sessions
- active sessions
logins
- logins
commands - number of IMAP commands
- commands
Faults
- minor
- major
Context Switches
- voluntary
- involuntary
disk in bytes/s
- read
- write
bytes in bytes/s
- read
- write
number of syscalls in syscalls/s
- read
- write
lookups - number of lookups per second
- path
- attr
hits - number of cache hits
- hits
attempts - authorization attempts
- success
- failure
cache - cached authorization hits
- hit
- miss
Configuration
Edit the python.d/dovecot.conf
configuration file using edit-config
from the Netdata config
directory, which is typically at /etc/netdata
.
cd /etc/netdata # Replace this path with your Netdata config directory, if different
sudo ./edit-config python.d/dovecot.conf
Sample:
localtcpip:
name : 'local'
host : '127.0.0.1'
port : 24242
localsocket:
name : 'local'
socket : '/var/run/dovecot/stats'
If no configuration is given, module will attempt to connect to dovecot using unix socket localized in /var/run/dovecot/stats
Troubleshooting
To troubleshoot issues with the dovecot
module, run the python.d.plugin
with the debug option enabled. The
output will give you the output of the data collection job or error messages on why the collector isn't working.
First, navigate to your plugins directory, usually they are located under /usr/libexec/netdata/plugins.d/
. If that's
not the case on your system, open netdata.conf
and look for the setting plugins directory
. Once you're in the
plugin's directory, switch to the netdata
user.
cd /usr/libexec/netdata/plugins.d/
sudo su -s /bin/bash netdata
Now you can manually run the dovecot
module in debug mode:
./python.d.plugin dovecot debug trace
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